| UNCLESAM | The US government personified (5,3) |
| MCCARTHY | Joseph - - -, US Republican senator who led investigations of alleged Communist infiltration into the US government in the 1950s (8) |
| INTERIOR | Department of the ___ , part of the US government that manages federal lands and natural resources (8) |
| JUDICIAL | The US government has legislative, executive and ____ branches |
| FBIAGENT | Being fat ruined worker for the US government (1,1,1,5) |
| GERONIMO | Apache leader held prisoner by the US government until he died, aged 79, in 1909 (8) |
| 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 |
| BRAVERY | Fidelity, ___, Integrity, the motto of the US government agency the FBI (7) |
| NASA | Independent agency of the executive branch of the US government responsible for the civilian space programme |
| DAKOTA | ___ War, 1862 conflict between the Santee Sioux and the US government (6) |
| MCCARTHYISM | Anti-communist campaign in the US government in the early 1950s |
| UNCLE | - Sam, personification of the US government (5) |
| EPA | Pollution-monitoring group in the US government: Abbr. |
| CSPAN | TV channel focused on the US government: Hyph. |
| SENATE | Part of the US government (6) |
| CONGRESSIONAL | Adapt-cronies'-slogan-of-the-US-government-(13) |
| SAM | Uncle -, the US government (3) |
| FEDERAL | Supplied information to liberal after long period concerning the US government? |
| NVIDIA | Company required to share revenue from chip sales in China with the US government. (6) |
| CIA | An independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest |
