| CJ | Alison Janney played this West Wing character Cregg |
| DAYTON | Ohio birth city of Martin Sheen, Alison Janney, and Luke Grimes |
| SEABORN | Sam ___, The West Wing character played by Rob Lowe (7) |
| LEO | "The West Wing" character ___ McGarry |
| JED | Martin's "West Wing" character |
| TOBY | "The West Wing" character |
| GLEN | ___ Walken ("The West Wing" character) |
| ALLISON | Played CJ Cregg in The West Wing (___ Janney) |
| JANNEY | Allison who played C.J. Cregg on "The West Wing" |
| ALLISONJANNEY | Played C.J. Cregg in The West Wing (7,6) |
| DEEDEEMYERS | Clinton press secretary who inspired the character CJ Cregg in The West Wing |
| WICKED | Desmond Barrit, a patron of Gorleston Pavilion, played The Wizard in this West End musical based upon a character in The Wizard of Oz (6) |
| EAST | Don Hany played detective Zane Malik in this (---- West 101) |
| ELPOLLOLOCO | In January, this West Coast chicken chain sued a Louisiana food truck for using this very similar name; only the first word had been changed, to "My" |
| WEST | Sam Seaborn, C.J. Cregg and Josiah "Jed" Bartlet are characters in The - Wing (4) |
| SOMALIA | Like this West African country, a war-torn state (7) |
| ARROWROOT | Starch can be obtained from part of this West Indian plant (9) |
| GHANA | Accra is the capital of this West African republic |
| GABON | Libreville is the capital city of this west-coast Central African nation |
| TOGO | Lome is the capital of this West African republic |
