| BADTIMES | The Great Depression, perhaps |
| THURSDAY | The Black one, in 1929, was the occasion when the Stock Exchange began to fall catastrophically, triggering the Great Depression |
| CARNIVALE | Dark fantasy series set in the US Dust Bowl during the Great Depression of the '30s (9) |
| ROW | Waterfront street in Monterey that lends its name to the title of a John Steinbeck novel set in the Great Depression, Cannery ... |
| GRAPESOFWRATH | John Steinbeck novel set in the Great Depression, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (6,2,5) |
| NEWDEAL | Domestic programme of economic and social reform implemented by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to combat the effects of the Great Depression (3,4) |
| SEABISCUIT | A champion thoroughbred American racehorse of the 1930s and '40s; a symbol of hope during the Great Depression (10) |
| ROOSEVELT | U.S. president who led the country through the Great Depression and World War II |
| HOOVERDAM | Concrete dam built during the Great Depression in a canyon of the Colorado river, Nevada (6,3) |
| MISERY | Skinflint Yankee in the Great Depression |
| OFMICEANDMEN | Steinbeck novella set during the Great Depression |
| TVA | Dam-building agcy. created during the Great Depression |
| FDIC | Banking org. founded during the Great Depression |
| PREWAR | Like the Great Depression, timewise |
| ERA | The Great Depression, e.g. |
| SHANTYTOWNS | Hoovervilles during the Great Depression, e.g. |
| SSNS | IDs since the Great Depression |
| SSN | ID since the Great Depression |
| KIT | American Girl who lives through the Great Depression |
| THIRTIES | Decade dominated by the Great Depression |
