| THEGREATESCAPE | 1963 war film starring Steve McQueen as a U.S. prisoner of war (3,5,6) |
| PAPILLON | 1974 adventure film starring Steve McQueen as a French convict (8) |
| ESCAPE | The Great ___ , 1963 war film starring Steve McQueen (6) |
| THEGREAT | 1963 war film starring Steve Mcqueen (3,5,6) |
| YIPPIE | Member of a radical movement that nominated a pig named Pigasus as a U.S. presidential candidate |
| GREATESCAPE | The ____, 1963 war film featuring Steve McQueen riding a motorbike (5,6) |
| HOFFA | 1992 biographical film starring Jack Nicholson as a U.S. union leader (5) |
| TYNE | Daly who guest-starred as a U.S. senator on a 2019 episode of "Madam Secretary" |
| ERASER | 1996 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a U.S. Marshal |
| RULECHANGE | Do a great job as a U.S. Mint employee? |
| HARRYTRUMAN | World War I veteran who served as a U.S. president |
| JAMESMONROE | Revolutionary War veteran who served as a U.S. president |
| CHESTERARTHUR | Civil War veteran who served as a U.S. president |
| LUCIFER | Urban fantasy TV series starring Tom Ellis as a U.S. police consultant (7) |
| THEBLOB | 1958 sci-fi film starring Steve McQueen - or Suella Braverman's description of 39? (3,4) |
| COMPROMISER | "The Great ___" (nickname of Henry Clay owing to his prowess in appeasing slaveholding states; he died in 1852 during his fourth stint as a U.S. senator for Kentucky) |
| JUSTIFIED | Acclaimed crime drama that starred Timothy Olyphant as a U.S. Marshal |
| STANSTED | Airport in Essex that opened in 1943 as a U.S. Air Force bomber base (8) |
| OREGON | ___ Treaty, establishing the 49th parallel as a U.S. border |
| ALPHAHOUSE | Show that starred John Goodman as a U.S. congressman (2 wds.) |
