| AMHARIC | Common Ethiopian language, and that used officially by its federal government; the holy language in Rastafarianism (7) |
| BEAT | A 1990s kei-class roadster never sold officially by Honda in the UK (4) |
| ULURU | One of the two names used (officially since 1993) of an Australian landmark, part of a World Heritage Site (5) |
| COMPTROLLERGENERAL | Director of the Government Accountability Office, the agency founded in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the US federal government |
| EARTHSHATTERING | Sod that wreck in Government - the one that's shocking (5-10) |
| NEGUS | Royal title in the Ethiopian language, a monarch or emperor (5) |
| RECONSTRUCTIONIST | One in the US who favoured bringing back the Confederate states to the federal government after the Civil War (17) |
| CRAZYHORSE | Leader of the Oglala Lakota who took up arms against the US Federal government, leading a war party at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876 |
| DC | District of Columbia, the place appropriated for the white house of the USA President and other federal government offices |
| IMPEACHMENT | In the US, a proceeding brought against a federal government official, such as that brought against Andrew Johnson in 1868 (11) |
| SENATE | Highest law-making chamber of government - the Roman one was the original |
| GSA | One of the three central management agencies in the Federal Government, abbr. |
| ELECTRICCOMPANY | The federal government, inefficiently and needlessly, is the nation's largest |
| IDAHO | Over three-fifths of its land is owned by the federal government |
| BORDERBILLS | Federal government plans (like the one by James Lankford), and a literal description of this puzzle's grid |
| DRJOHNSON | Name by which the lexicographer who wrote A Dictionary of the English Language and Lives of the Most |
| TONGUE | Related to "lingua", the source of language and lingo, the fleshy glossa in the mouth for articulating speech (6) |
| CONGRESS | Legislative branch of the Mexican government, the ... of Mexico |
| READINGRAILROAD | Business broken up by the federal government in 1893 |
| DATUK | Federal title bestowed by the Malaysian federal government |
