| MEREENFIELD | Former editorial page editor of The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for Newswee |
| SOUSA | Surname of the composer of Washington Post and Stars and Stripes marches (5) |
| BENBRADLEE | Executive editor of The Washington Post who oversaw the publication of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Watergate reports |
| BEN | ___ Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post during Watergate |
| BRET | Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Stephens |
| ROYKO | Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike |
| MORRISON | Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Sula (8) |
| TARTT | Author of The Little Friend, The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch (5) |
| YONKERS | Neil Simon's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning coming of age drama, Lost In ... |
| TONIMORRISON | Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist (4,8) |
| USED | Exploited employee of the Washington Post? (4) |
| GRAHAM | Katharine ___, onetime publisher of the Washington Post |
| DAILY | Frequency of the Washington Post |
| CARL | Bernstein of the Washington Post |
| INDARKNESS | "Democracy Dies ___" (slogan of The Washington Post adopted in 2017) |
| PAPERTHINKING | Philosophy of the Washington Post? |
| GOSSIP | Subject of the Washington Post's "Reliable Source" column |
| TRIB | Pub. whose editorial page endorsed a Democrat for president for the first time in 2008 |
| LINDSTROM | Danish author and columnist for Time magazine who has written six books on brands and consumer behaviour (9) |
| ARLINGTON | Virginia county, part of the Washington metropolitan area, where the Pentagon and a national cemetery are located |
