| Idle colleague | 14 |
| Idle cohort | 11 |
| Governor who resigned from office in 2009 | 41 |
| “Going Rogue” memoirist | 31 |
| Cohort of Cleese, Idle, et al. | 30 |
| Cohort of Cleese and Idle | 25 |
| Cleese cohort from his Monty Python days | 40 |
| Cleese castmate | 15 |
| Biden's 2008 counterpart | 28 |
| Author of "Going Rogue" | 33 |
| Author of "America by Heart" | 38 |
| Actor Michael who wrote "Hemingway's Chair" | 57 |
| 1979 Pontius Pilate portrayer | 29 |
| "Maverick" runner of 2008 | 35 |
| "Going Rogue" memoirist | 33 |
| "America by Heart" author, 2010 | 41 |
| "America by Heart" author | 35 |
| The same either way | 19 |
| Reading the same forward and backward | 37 |
| Picket fence | 12 |
| Yard fence | 10 |
| Line of cliffs | 14 |
| Fence for defense | 17 |
| Hudson River sight | 18 |
| Defensive structure | 19 |
| Fort's defense | 18 |
| Defense fence | 13 |
| Pointed stake | 13 |
| Line of high cliffs | 19 |
| Fort enclosure | 14 |
| Fence of stakes | 15 |
| Fence of defense | 16 |
| Fence made of stakes | 20 |
| Defensive fortification | 23 |
| Defensive fence | 15 |
| Defender's fence | 20 |
| View from the George Washington Bridge | 38 |
| Row of cliffs on the Hudson | 27 |
| Pointed fence stakes | 20 |
| Hudson sight | 12 |
| Hudson features | 15 |
| Fjord adjunct | 13 |
| Defensive barriers | 18 |
| 1957 Sinatra film | 17 |
| Rodgers musical | 15 |
| Rodgers and Hart score | 22 |
| Rodgers and Hart 1940 success | 29 |
| O'Hara classic | 18 |
| Musical based on an O'Hara novel | 36 |
| John O'Hara classic | 23 |
| Grow tiresome | 13 |
| Cloud of gloom | 14 |
| Grow wearisome | 14 |
| Dark shadow | 11 |
| Oppression | 10 |
| Become wearisome | 16 |
| Gloomy shadow | 13 |
| Gloomy covering | 15 |
| Feeling of gloom | 16 |
| Become bored | 12 |
| Dark cloud | 10 |
| Cast a ___ over | 15 |
| Aura of doom | 12 |
| Velvet spread | 13 |
| Lose effectiveness | 18 |
| Gloomy aura | 11 |
| Cover of gloom | 14 |
| Coffin cloth | 12 |
| Become tired | 12 |
| A sudden numbing dread | 22 |
| ___ Mall (London street) | 24 |
| What's borne at a funeral | 29 |
| Velvet drape | 12 |
| Veil of gloom | 13 |
| Turn tiresome | 13 |
| Source of gloom | 15 |
| Smog cover | 10 |
| Shroud of gloom | 15 |
| Shroud of darkness | 18 |
| Numbing dread | 13 |
| It can be cast in a tragedy | 27 |
| Heavy sheet | 11 |
| Gloomy mood | 11 |
| Gloomy effect | 13 |
| Gloom producer | 14 |
| Get wearisome | 13 |
| Funeral drape | 13 |
| Double L garment | 16 |
| Darkening cloud | 15 |
| Dark cover | 10 |
| Cover with gloom | 16 |
| Cover of darkness | 17 |
| Coffin cover | 12 |
| Cloth over a chalice | 20 |
| Burial garment | 14 |
| Black cloud | 11 |
| Begin to grate | 14 |
| Become unpleasant | 17 |
| Become ho-hum | 13 |
| ___ Mall, London | 16 |