| ELIAKAZAN | Director who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s |
| ALGERHISS | Perjurer before the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| ELMO | In April 2002, he testified before the Senate for increased funding for music education |
| NIXON | US president, once a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee (5) |
| NAMES | Demand from the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| NSC | A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security. |
| PRESIDIUM | Standing executive committee in the Soviet Union |
| ONSTAGE | Before the house agents, nothing dodgy (2,5) |
| GUNPOWDERPLOT | What was made public before the House rose? |
| REDHEARING | House Un-American Activities Committee event? |
| IMACOMMIE | Come around with Miami admission to un-American activities committee (2,1,6) |
| LARSULRICH | Drummer who testified before congress in the Napster hearings |
| MCCARTHY | Joseph ____, "witch-hunting" US senator and chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953 |
| HUMPBACK | House Un-American politician in favour of beastly type having a whale of a time (8) |
| LENO | Late-night host who testified in the Michael Jackson trial |
| FAWN | Former secretary to Oliver North who testified in the Iran-Contra hearings, Hall |
| ANITA | Hill who testified on the Hill in 1991 |
| BARR | Former Attorney General William who testified to having told President Trump that the White House's claims of election-stealing were "bullshit" (June, 2022) |
| FACEBOOKLIBRA | Proposed currency about which tech exec David Marcus testified before Congress last month |
| KNAPP | Commission Serpico testified before |