| John/Rice musical |
| 2008/2012 campaign portmanteau |
| Creatively-censored 4/28/10 New York Post headline about the foul-mouthed Senate/Wall Street hearings |
| Dog-tag wearers, briefly |
| 1979 Caine/Ustinov film |
| ABA/NBA star with more than 30,000 points |
| A poetry form/With seventeen syllables/And only three lines |
| Baltimore specialty / Effortless task / Move on all fours with the belly up |
| Aid provider to the critically injured, briefly |
| Native American tribesman in a 1992 Daniel Day-Lewis/Madeleine Stowe film |
| Announcements from the cockpit, briefly |
| Actor/singer Jared |
| Alamogordo trial, briefly |
| Bit of airport info, briefly |
| Comprehensive alerts, briefly |
| Alpha rhythm readouts, briefly |
| And so on and so forth, briefly |
| Relating to grades 1 to 12, briefly |
| Loops into a conversation, briefly |
| Uplifting remake of a 1964 Audrey Hepburn/Rex Harrison film? |
| Baseball/football Hall-of-Famer Hubbard |
| Airport stop on New Jersey Transit, briefly |
| Cause of some floating, briefly |
| Video game that comes out today (9/9/09), whose songs/levels are referenced in this puzzle, with "The |
| Accounting designation, briefly |
| Alert to a black-and-white, briefly |
| Bodybuilder's motion, briefly |
| Because Freedom Can't Protect Itself" sloganeer, briefly |
| Risky person to do business with, briefly |
| Career decision for a referee/lawyer? |