| TV bigwig | 9 |
| Stabilizing influence | 21 |
| Source of stability | 19 |
| Something to weigh | 18 |
| Ship securer | 12 |
| Ship hold | 9 |
| Relay team member | 17 |
| Relay race closer | 17 |
| Relay finisher | 14 |
| Rather, once | 12 |
| Rather, e.g. | 12 |
| Rather rank? | 12 |
| QE2 accessory | 13 |
| Primary support person | 22 |
| Position in a relay | 19 |
| Person at the end of a tug-of-war rope | 38 |
| Object intentionally dropped on the floor | 41 |
| Object intentionally dropped | 28 |
| Nicholson role in "Broadcast News" | 44 |
| Newscast VIP | 12 |
| News star | 9 |
| News show VIP | 13 |
| News coordinator | 16 |
| Last leg runner | 15 |
| Last leg of a relay | 19 |
| Kedge | 5 |
| Katie Couric, for one | 21 |
| Jimmy Buffett might drop it on vacation | 39 |
| Item to drop or weigh | 21 |
| Item to be weighed | 18 |
| Item tattooed on Popeye's arm | 33 |
| It can be dragged or dropped | 28 |
| Heavy thing on a ship | 21 |
| Eleven o'clock VIP | 22 |
| Do a news job | 13 |
| Diane Sawyer, for one | 21 |
| Coveted news job | 16 |
| Brian Williams, e.g. | 20 |
| Anderson Cooper, e.g. | 21 |
| Berth place | 11 |
| Port on an Alaskan cruise | 25 |
| Port in the 49th | 16 |
| Northernmost major city in the U.S. | 35 |
| Iditarod start | 14 |
| Home of Elmendorf Air Force Base | 32 |
| City whose motto is "Big Wild Life" | 45 |
| City at the head of Cook Inlet | 30 |
| Alaskan's or mariner's place | 36 |
| U.S. city that's almost as large in area as Delaware | 56 |
| The Last Frontier's largest municipality | 44 |
| Last Frontier city | 18 |
| Largest city in the 50th state | 30 |
| Hanging Basket Capital of the World | 35 |
| Earthquake Park setting | 23 |
| City on the Cook Inlet | 22 |
| City hit by 1964 quake | 22 |
| 49th state's largest city | 29 |
| What the fastest sprinter runs | 30 |
| 2004 Will Ferrell flim | 22 |
| ''I may interrupt your programming'' | 52 |
| Peter Jennings, e.g. | 20 |
| One with breaking news | 22 |
| Jim Lehrer, for instance | 24 |
| ___ régime | 13 |
| ___ régime (pre-1789 French government) | 42 |
| Prehistoric, in Paris | 21 |
| Opposite of moderne | 19 |
| Old: Fr. | 8 |
| Old, in France | 14 |
| Not ''nouveau'' | 31 |
| __ régime: pre-1789 French government | 40 |
| Prehistoric | 11 |
| Venerable one | 13 |
| Very old | 8 |
| Long gone | 9 |
| Old as the hills | 16 |
| Really old | 10 |
| Like the Parthenon | 18 |
| Like Stonehenge | 15 |
| Like Phoenicia | 14 |
| Age-old | 7 |
| Socrates or Pythagoras, e.g. | 28 |
| Person of olden times | 21 |
| Of interest to archaeologists | 29 |
| Long-ago | 8 |
| Like Tyre or Nineveh | 20 |
| Like the mariner | 16 |
| Like S.T.C.'s Mariner | 25 |
| As old as the hills | 19 |
| "The Rime of the ___ Mariner" | 39 |
| Water under the bridge | 22 |
| Old news | 8 |
| It may be studied in school | 27 |
| Course covering Egypt | 21 |
| It's very, very old | 23 |
| Events of long, long ago | 24 |
| Course covering the Roman Empire, perhaps | 41 |
| Very old races? | 15 |
| Socrates and Plato, e.g. | 24 |
| Plutarch, Plato, Pliny et al. | 29 |