| GEORGEHWBUSH | President who was also Director of the CIA |
| SCORSESE | Osmr winner for The Departed, also director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas (8) |
| OBAMA | U.S. president who was also president of the Harvard Law Review |
| NSC | The director of the CIA is part of it |
| BUSH | George H. W., U.S. president born in 1924 who previously served as Director of the CIA (4) |
| REAGAN | President who was also a sportscaster |
| TAFT | Only president who was also chief justice |
| HAYES | President who was also a brigadier general |
| VEIL | What is the title of the US investigative journalist Bob Woodward's 1987 book, subtitled The Secret Wars of the CIA? (4) |
| JAMESMASON | British actor, star of films including Lolita and The Boys from Brazil, who was also in the cast of Evil Under the Sun, a big screen adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel that was shot in Mallorca (5 |
| OSS | WWII US intelligence organisation and forerunner of the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services was kn |
| THECOMPANY | Three-part series about the activities of the CIA during the Cold War in which Chris O'Donnell plays Jack McAuliffe: 2 wds. |
| ONI | The U.S. military's nautical version of the CIA |
| SPY | Employee of the CIA or the KGB |
| VANGOGH | Vincent ___ Dutch painter of The Starry Night who was also one of the influential figures of Western Art: 2 wds. |
| KGB | USSR's Committee of State Security and longtime foe of the CIA (1,1,1) |
| DONOVAN | "Father of the CIA" |
| ACCLAIM | Popular recognition of the CIA might calm disturbance (7) |
| CSIS | Our version of the CIA |
| SPYINTHESKY | Highly placed asset of the CIA? (3,2,3,3) |
