| HARRYS | With 40-Across US vice president who became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945: 2 wds. |
| CALVINCOOLIDGE | US vice president who became president upon the death of Warren Harding in 1923: 2 wds. |
| LYNDONBJOHNSON | US vice president who became president upon the death of John F. Kennedy in 1963: 3 wds. |
| VIETNAM | Country with a red national flag bearing a yellow/gold star, declared independent from France in 194 |
| TYLER | He was the first vice president to become president upon the death of the chief executive (#10, 1841 |
| 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) |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| ELEANOR | Wife of Franklin D Roosevelt, first lady of the US from 1933-1945 (7) |
| NIECE | Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of president Franklin D Roosevelt and the what of president Teddy Roosevelt? (5) |
| HERBERTHOOVER | Incumbent defeated by Franklin D Roosevelt in the 1932 US presidential election |
| QUAYLE | US Vice President who became chairman of a major private equity firm after leaving office.(last name) (6) |
| EDWARDVI | King at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Henry VIII (6,1,1) |
| RFK | Deliverer of a noted speech upon the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (4/4/1968), in brief |
| ALGORE | Former US vice-president who starred in the documentary about global warming, The Inconvenient Truth |
| AARONBURR | The third US vice-president, who killed his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel (5,4) |
| MONDALE | Vice president who became ambassador to Japan |
| TAFT | President who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1921 |
| REACH | "When you ___ the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on": Franklin D. Roosevelt (5) |
| BURR | Prickly seedcase often sticking to woollens or dogs; US vice-president who killed his rival in a duel; or, a type of interlocking puzzle (4) |
| NELSONMANDELA | South African president who became an honorary citizen of Canada in 2001: 2 wds. |
