| CLANGCLANGCLANG | How the trolley went in a 1944 song |
| LINDA | Girl in a 1944 song |
| CLANG | When tripled, how the trolley went |
| FREDKOREMATSU | Person in a 1944 case contesting the internment of Japanese Americans |
| ADANO | Town in a 1944 book title |
| TULIP | White item in a 1944 Matisse painting |
| SONG | Voted in the hundred best movie tunes was The Trolley ..., performed by Judy Garland in 1944's Meet Me In St Louis |
| TOSEA | Where the owl and the pussycat went, in a poem |
| FITZGERALD | Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the circled squares |
| ELIMINATE | You've got to ___ the negative, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the positive: 1944 song by Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers (9) |
| MEETME | Judy Garland sang The Trolley Song in ... In St Louis (4,2) |
| MEET | Judy Garland sings The Trolley Song in ... Me In St Louis |
| INKWELL | What went in a hole in an old-style school desk |
| ARCED | Crew regularly entering a road went in a curve? (5) |
| PORTER | A drink for the man wheeling the trolley (6) |
| DUMBARTONOAKS | Estate in the District of Columbia, US, that hosted a 1944 conference that led to the formation of the United Nations |
| BRETTON | & 25A Venue in New Hampshire, US, of a 1944 conference that resulted in the establishment of the World Bank |
| DUMBARTON | Estate in the District of Columbia, US, that hosted a 1944 conference that led to the formation of the United Nations (9) |
| OAKS | Estate in the District of Columbia, US, that hosted a 1944 conference that led to the formation of the United Nations (4) |
| WOODS | Venue in New Hampshire, US, of a 1944 conference that resulted in the establishment of the World Bank (7,5) |