| INGODWETRUST | Official motto of the United States, first appearing on the two-cent coin in 1864 (2,3,2,5) |
| SMUG | Self-satisfied smile's first appearing on face |
| RARE | Like an 1864 two cent piece |
| SMALLCHANGE | Little difference between one and two cent pieces (5,6) |
| DEANE | Silas who was the United States' first foreign diplomat (1776) |
| SEN | 1/2 cent in Japan |
| ALBRIGHT | See 9 Down. The United States' first female secretary of state (9,8) |
| MADELEINE | See 29-Across. The United States' first female secretary of state (9,8) |
| UNKNOWNCOMIC | The ___ ___ (Alter ego of Canadian stand-up Murray Langston whilst disguised on stage with a paper bag when appearing on "The Gong Show") |
| ASTRA | Per ardua ad -; Latin phrase meaning "through adversity to the stars" used as the official motto of the RAF (5) |
| PERARDUAADASTRA | The official motto of the Royal Air Force (in Latin) (3,5,2,5) |
| ELEANOR | Name of the longest-serving United States first lady |
| EPLURIBUSUNUM | Latin motto of the United States, literally meaning 'one out of many' (1,8,4) |
| SISEPUEDE | Spanish phrase that is the motto of the United Farm Workers of America |
| PARADISE | Appearing on the flag of the South Pacific nation, Papua New Guinea, is the bird of ... |
| DIME | A 10 cent coin in the United States (4) |
| BRITISHLEYLAND | Answer given to the question "In 1892, Brandon Thomas wrote what famous long-running English farce?" in a Mastermind sketch on The Two Ronnies |
| GUINEVERE | (GKN) Wife of the legendary King Arthur, first appearing in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Begum Britanniae (c. 1136) (9) |
| GLENDA | ___ Slagg, fictional parodic columnist in the satirical magazine Private Eye, first appearing in the mid-1960s (6) |
| INDIANA | State of the Midwestern US whose official motto is 'Crossroads of America' (7) |
