| HOWGREENWAS | 1941's Best Picture (famously winning over Citizen Kane), which centers on a miners' strike in Wales |
| MYVALLEY | 1941's Best Picture (famously winning over Citizen Kane), which centers on a miners' strike in Wales |
| USA | "Harlan County ___" (Oscar-winning Barbara Kopple documentary about a miners' strike) |
| TOMANDJERRY | Popular comedy slapstick cartoon series which centers around the rivalry between a cat and a mouse: 3 wds. |
| BLUEY | Australian cartoon that centers on a six-year-old cattle dog |
| ORE | Miner's strike in Korea? |
| VICEPRESIDENT | Politician's immorality with power over citizen (4-9) |
| LOWPOST | Area for a center, on a basketball court |
| POPULATION | Pope detailed universal language to win over citizens (10) |
| MANDREL | A spindle in a lathe to which a workpiece is fixed while being turned; a jeweller's tapering triblet on which rings are shaped or sized; or, a miner's pick (7) |
| NOIRE | L.A. ___ (popular video game that centers on the detective Cole Phelps) |
| PITSTOP | Miners" strike produces a temporary break in the race (3,4) |
| LAWS | The book I, Robot centers on development of humanlike robots and the problems that arise from ethical programming, summed up in Asimov's ____ of robotics (4) |
| ENDEARING | Winning over the listener in the finish (9) |
| OUTBALANCING | Winning over jolly, round fellow in black cape (12) |
| FIRSTAIDSTATION | Winning over immune disease, thanks to work into post for medical treatment (5,3,7) |
| NOSEGUARDS | They face centers on the line of scrimmage |
| ARTHURSCARGILL | 1984-85 UK miners strike leader (6,8) |
| ORSON | Director of 1941's Citizen Kane,----- Welles (5) |
| GRAMMYS | They're scheduled to be awarded at the Staples Center on 1/31/2010 |
