| HUCKABEE | Mike ?, Governor of Arkansas from 1996-2007; candidate in the 2008 Republican Party presidential pri |
| PENCE | Mike ?, Governor of Indiana from 2013-17; current vice president of the United States |
| PALIN | Name on the 2008 Republican ticket |
| RUBIO | Marco ---, US senator who was an opponent of Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries (5) |
| WALLACE | George ?, governor of Alabama, survivor of an assassination attempt in 1972, who died in 1998 (7) |
| ALEXANDROU | James ?, actor who played Martin Fowler in BBC TV soap EastEnders from 1996-2007 (10) |
| ALLYMCCOIST | Former Scottish footballer, team captain on A Question Of Sport from 1996-2007 (4,7) |
| HASTINGS | Warren ?, Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William in India from 1773-85 (8) |
| BOBDOLE | 1996 US Republican Party presidential candidate (3,4) |
| DOLE | Bob ___, 1996 US Republican Party presidential candidate (4) |
| LANDY | John ?, Governor of Victoria, Australia from 2001-06 who was the second man to run a sub-four minute mile (5) |
| BILLCLINTON | Democratic president who once served as the governor of Arkansas: 2 wds. |
| VANDIEMEN | Anthony ?, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1636-45 (3,6) |
| ROSSPEROT | Reform Party presidential candidate of 1996 |
| EUGENE | ___ V. Debs, Socialist Party presidential candidate of the early 20th century |
| KERRY | John ___, US senator who was the 2004 Democratic Party presidential candidate (5) |
| DONKEYS | Beasts of burden such as Pooh's gloomy friend Eeyore and the talking one who helped Shrek rescue Pri |
| ESSEX | Bette Davis/Errol Flynn movie, "The Pri- vate Lives of Elizabeth and ___" (1939) |
| TOMMYTHOMPSON | Unsuccessful 2008 Republican candidate for president |
| IMUS | "___ in the Morning on MSNBC" (1996-2007) |
