| READYMONEY | Cash required by needy mayor in trouble (5,5) |
| TOLLGATE | Cash required here - ring bell on barrier! |
| ONELINER | Endless cash required to join ship - it's a joke (3-5) |
| DEPENDENCY | Object swallowed by needy PC treated addiction (10) |
| FOREIGNAID | On account of crook, I gained money sought by needy countries (7,3) |
| GRUB | ___ Street, milieu inhabited by needy authors (4) |
| CINCINNATI | City in Ohio where U.S. TV chat show host Jerry Springer was mayor in the 1970s (10) |
| ALDERWOMAN | Law refreshed with a modern equal-op Lord Mayor in waiting? |
| OSSIEDAVIS | US actor, director, poet, playwright, author and social activist who played Da Mayor in Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing |
| CARMEL | ___-by-the-Sea (Where Clint Eastwood was the Mayor in California) |
| ANDREW | Yang who ran for president in 2020 and New York mayor in 2021 |
| RUNNINGANDOVER | Being a mayor in Massachusetts? |
| ONLYINAMERICA | His reaction to the election of a Jewish mayor in Dublin |
| PACINO | He played New York's mayor in "City Hall" |
| BURGOMASTER | Mayor in Germany, Austria, etc (11) |
| STU | Rasmussen who was the first openly transgendered mayor in the U.S. |
| ALCALDE | Magistrate or mayor in a Spanish, Portuguese or Latin America town |
| POLAND | A mayor in this country was stabbed on stage (6) |
| EDKOCH | NYC's only mayor in the '80s |
| LGA | Transportation hub named for a 1930s-'40s mayor, in brief |
