| Team whose playing venue appears on the National Register of Historic Places | 76 |
| Team whose fans make up a Nation | 32 |
| Team that's played in the same home park since 1912 | 55 |
| Team that ended a "curse" in 2004 | 43 |
| Team owned by the New York Times, oddly | 39 |
| Team known as the Americans until 1907 | 38 |
| Rays' rivals | 16 |
| Nation with a fanatical following | 33 |
| Fenway Park players | 19 |
| Boston nine | 11 |
| Boston footgear | 15 |
| 2007 World Series winners | 25 |
| 2004 World Series "curse" beaters | 43 |
| "Impossible Dream" team of 1967 | 41 |
| St. Basil's Cathedral site | 30 |
| St. Basil's Cathedral locale | 32 |
| Site of many military parades | 29 |
| Military parade site | 20 |
| Lenin Mausoleum site | 20 |
| Kazan Cathedral locale | 22 |
| Republican stronghold | 21 |
| Voting map designation | 22 |
| Right part of a map | 19 |
| Republican region, on a political map | 37 |
| Part of a U.S political map. | 28 |
| One political entity among 50 | 29 |
| Any SSR? | 8 |
| Alabama or Utah, politically | 28 |
| Much of flyover country | 23 |
| Bush country? | 13 |
| They go Republican | 18 |
| Idaho and Iowa, in '04 | 26 |
| Sale indicator | 14 |
| Sign of a sale | 14 |
| Sign of a sale in some stores | 29 |
| Sale-merchandise label | 22 |
| Sale markdown indicator | 23 |
| Sale item attachment | 20 |
| Marker for some sale items | 26 |
| Low price indicator | 19 |
| Label sought by bargain hunters | 31 |
| Indicator in department store sales | 35 |
| Attractive things for shoppers | 30 |
| North American hawk | 19 |
| Nickname for a Tuskegee Airman | 30 |
| Gray parrot feature | 19 |
| Bureaucratic tangle | 19 |
| Delay cause | 11 |
| Bureaucracy | 11 |
| Progress impediment | 19 |
| Bureaucratic nuisance | 21 |
| Bureaucratic delay | 18 |
| Bureaucratic annoyance | 22 |
| Progress impeder | 16 |
| Piles of paperwork, perhaps | 27 |
| Bureaucratic stuff | 18 |
| Bureaucratic runaround | 22 |
| Bureaucratic rigmarole | 22 |
| Bureaucratic procedure | 22 |
| Bureaucratic hoops | 18 |
| Bureaucratic formalities | 24 |
| Bureaucratic delays | 19 |
| Time-consuming procedure | 24 |
| Symbol of bureaucracy | 21 |
| Reason for a long delay in getting approval, maybe | 50 |
| Progress slower | 15 |
| Procedural obstacle | 19 |
| Procedural annoyance | 20 |
| Oval Office supplies? | 21 |
| Obstacle to getting things done | 31 |
| Nice thing to cut through | 25 |
| It's hard to cut through | 28 |
| Impedimental officialese | 24 |
| Hoops, so to speak | 18 |
| Civil service snarl | 19 |
| Cause of many delays | 20 |
| Cause of delays | 15 |
| Cause for delay | 15 |
| Business deal impeder | 21 |
| Bureaucratic wrapping | 21 |
| Bureaucratic waste | 18 |
| Bureaucratic specialty | 22 |
| Bureaucratic snarl | 18 |
| Bureaucratic routine | 20 |
| Bureaucratic requirements | 25 |
| Bureaucratic problem | 20 |
| Bureaucratic nightmare | 22 |
| Bureaucratic impediment | 23 |
| Bureaucratic form-filling | 25 |
| Bureaucratic finish line | 24 |
| Bureaucratic busywork | 21 |
| Bureaucracy problem | 19 |
| Barrier to progress | 19 |
| Drink made from rooibos | 23 |
| South African herbal drink | 26 |
| South African brew | 18 |
| Mellow, faintly sweet hot beverage | 34 |
| Leaves from South Africa | 24 |
| Brew that gets its color from oxidation | 39 |
| Shellfish contaminant | 21 |