| CARNIVALE | Dark fantasy series set in the US Dust Bowl during the Great Depression of the '30s (9) |
| ONCEUPONATIME | ABC fantasy series set in Storybrooke, Maine |
| DIP | Bowl during a bowl game broadcast, maybe |
| TUSSAUD | See us dust a bust for waxworker (7) |
| JAG | 1995-2005 drama series set in the US navy (3) |
| JOYRIDE | Stephanie Hsu's road movie set in the US and China (3,4) |
| CHICAGO | Award-winning movie and musical set in the US gangster city |
| HOOVERDAM | Concrete dam built during the Great Depression in a canyon of the Colorado river, Nevada (6,3) |
| LAGUARDIA | Fiorello, New York City mayor during the Great Depression and World War II (2,7) |
| ROOSEVELT | U.S. president who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II |
| KEYSTROKE | Single depression of a character on a computer terminal (9) |
| POSTNATAL | Such may be the depression of delivery holding Brown back (4-5) |
| SEABISCUIT | A champion thoroughbred American racehorse of the 1930s and '40s; a symbol of hope during the Great Depression (10) |
| OFMICEANDMEN | 1937 novella by US author John Steinbeck set during the Great Depression (2,4,3,3) |
| HAMONRYE | Semi-autobiographical novel written by Charles Bukowski that tells of his coming-of-age during the Great Depression: 3 wds. |
| LANGE | Dorothea ___, US documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression influenced future photojournalism (5) |
| DOROTHEALANGE | US photographer who was known for her work during the Great Depression (8,5) |
| OFMICE | John Steinbeck's tale of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression. (2,4,3,3) |
| ANDMEN | John Steinbeck's tale of migrant farm workers during the Great Depression. (2,4,3,3) |
| HOBOS | They 'hopped' US freight cars during the Great Depression (5) |
