| SENATE | Part of the US government (6) |
| INTERIOR | Department of the ___ , part of the US government that manages federal lands and natural resources (8) |
| NASA | Independent agency of the executive branch of the US government responsible for the civilian space programme |
| STATES | Sets forth for part of the US, having managed a second test (6) |
| OREGON | Part of the USA when the mineral wealth's largely been removed (6) |
| MADCAP | Crazy plan to cross a part of the US |
| STRIPE | One of 13 parts of the US flag |
| DAKOTA | ___ War, 1862 conflict between the Santee Sioux and the US government (6) |
| BRAVERY | Fidelity, ___, Integrity, the motto of the US government agency the FBI (7) |
| NVIDIA | Company required to share revenue from chip sales in China with the US government. (6) |
| UNCLE | - Sam, personification of the US government (5) |
| UNCLESAM | A relative of the US government (5,3) |
| CONGRESSIONAL | Adapt-cronies'-slogan-of-the-US-government-(13) |
| NOS | Office of the US government |
| FREDDIEMAC | Name for the US government-sponsored enterprise The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, put under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance Agency in 2008 |
| ALEUTIANISLANDS | Which archipelago in one definition is the westernmost part of the US, and in another is the eastern |
| NEWENGLANDER | A native or inhabitant of the north-east part of the US (3,9) |
| FBI | Part of the US Dept. of Justice. |
| STATEOFTHEART | Most modern part of the US, regularly a vital part |
| MCCARTHY | Joseph - - -, US Republican senator who led investigations of alleged Communist infiltration into the US government in the 1950s (8) |
