| SORENSEN | Ted who wrote "The Kennedy Legacy" |
| HEALY | Ted who created "The Three Stooges" |
| LANGE | Ted who portrayed Isaac on "The Love Boat" |
| LITTLEIRELAND | As arranged, I'll catch the three o'clock train and go to visit my sweetheart Ted, who lives in a house near Wedmore (6,7) |
| GIOIA | Jazz critic and music historian Ted who goes by "The Honest Broker" |
| CREATED | May care about Ted who acted up (7) |
| CRUZ | Ted who ran for president in 2016 |
| STRYKER | Ted, who's been nervous lots of times (7) |
| DEMOCRATS | 'Keep the bastards honest' party once represented in the Australian Senate or members of the Kennedy political clan in the US |
| JIMJEFFORDS | Vermont senator (1989-2007) who was the tenor in the Singing Senators; their gigs included a 1995 performance of "Elvira" at the Kennedy Center |
| DISINTERESTED | Dines out and tries to involve Ted who remains uninfluenced by it (13) |
| DEADTOTHEWORLD | Shattered toddler with a ted, who is fast asleep (4,2,3,5) |
| WASTEDTIME | Perhaps it was me, Ted, who named this Kings Of Leon single (6-4) |
| OZAWA | Conductor who received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015 |
| ALEXANDRADANILOVA | Prima ballerina who received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1989 |
| ROBERT | The Kennedy who got his dress right, apparently (6) |
| CAROLEKING | Gala airing on CBS on Tuesday, December 29th... Singer/songwriter who is one of The Kennedy Center's |
| TWENTY | Number of the house on Ramsay Street where the Kennedy family lives (6,5) |
| MALCOLMX | Influential US African-American leader who controversially said that the Kennedy assassination was an example of "chickens coming home to roost" (7,1) |
| SHUTTLE | Atlantis was the final one to launch, on July 8, 2011; it did so from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida |
