| BENBRADLEE | Executive editor of The Washington Post who oversaw the publication of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Watergate reports |
| ALLTHEPRESIDENTSMEN | Academy Award-winning film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein |
| ELMER | Composer Bernste in embraced by Ethel Merman (5) |
| DEAN | ___ Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times |
| ALAN | Greenspan who is the subject of Bob Woodward's "Maestro" |
| MEREENFIELD | Former editorial page editor of The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for Newswee |
| BEN | ___ Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post during Watergate |
| WILEY | Post, who made the first solo flight around the world |
| NEWBROOM | A person recently appointed to a post who is expected to make a lot of changes (3,5) |
| WADE | Commander of the troops sent into Scotland against the Jacobites who oversaw the construction of some 250 miles of roads and 40 bridges across the Highlands (4) |
| YEARLY | Occurring annually/perennially, as in the publication of an almanac, the full cycle of all four seasons or the period of one solar orbit (6) |
| HELMUTKOHL | Chancellor who oversaw the reunification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall (6,4) |
| HENRYPELHAM | British Whig Prime Minister (1743-1754) who oversaw the end of the war of the Austrian Succession (5,6) |
| VEIL | What is the title of the US investigative journalist Bob Woodward's 1987 book, subtitled The Secret Wars of the CIA? (4) |
| JOHNTYLER | Tenth president of the United States (1841-5), who oversaw the annexation of Texas (4,5) |
| DONALDRUMSFELD | Two-time US secretary of defense who oversaw the start of the Iraq War: 2 wds. |
| ROBARDS | Jason, US actor who played Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee in the 1976 film All the President's Men (7) |
| LES | TV executive Moonves who oversaw the creation of "Friends" and "ER" |
| JAMESMADISON | US Secretary of State (and fourth president) who oversaw the Louisiana Purchase: 2 wds. |
| BARBARACASTLE | Transport minister who oversaw the introduction of breathalysers and compulsory seat belts |
