USA

Cable channel with the slogan Characters welcome

• ___ for Africa

• ___ for Africa (We Are the World group)

• ___ Funds (education-loan guarantor)

• ___ Network

• ___ Patriot Act

• ___ Patriot Act (2001 measure)

• ___ PATRIOT Act (3)

• ___ Today

• ___ Today (colorful newspaper)

• ___ Today (newspaper since 1982)

• ___ Today (newspaper)

• ___ Today (popular publication)

• ___ Weekend (Gannett publication)

• ___ Weekend (Parade rival)

• (The) Union

• ___ Today (newsstand buy)

• '02 Winter Olympics host

• '99 Ryder Cup champ

• 'Born in the ___'

• 'Born in the ___' ('85 hit)

• 'Born in the ___': Springsteen

• 'Made in the --'

• 'Main Street, ___' (Disneyland attraction)

• 'Raw Is War' cable chan.

• 'Surfin' ___' (1963 Beach Boys hit)

• 'The 4400' network

• Anytown, ___

• Birthplace of songdom

• Born in the ___, 1984 song

• Born in the ___ (Springsteen song)

• Burn Notice carrier

• Burn Notice channel

• Burn Notice network

• Characters welcome network

• Dream Team letters

• Eco-Challenge airer

• Eco-Challenge network

• Give ___ break!

• God Bless the ___

• God Bless the ___ (Lee Greenwood hit)

• Home of the brave

• House Wars airer

• La Femme Nikita network

• Land of the free

• Land of the free: Abbr.

• Living in the ___ (Steve Miller Band song)

• Made in ___

• Made in the ___ (clothing label)

• Miracle on Ice chant

• Miracle on Ice team

• Miracle chant

• Miracle team

• Monk airer

• Monk carrier

• Monk network

• Psych airer

• Psych cable network

• Psych network

• R.O.C.K. in the ___

• Royal Pains network

• Silk Stalkings station

• Suits network

• Surfin' ___

• Surfin' ___ (1963 hit)

• Surfin' ___ (Beach Boys hit)

• Surfin' ___ (Beach Boys song)

• The Dead Zone cable network

• The good ol' place

• The Good Old ___ (song classic)

• The Star-Spangled Banner land

• Touching Evil network

• White Collar carrier

• 1980 Olympic hockey gold medalists

• 1984 Summer Olympics host

• 1992 Davis Cup winner: abbr.

• 1994 World Cup host

• 1994 World Cup host, familiarly

• 1996 Olympics chant

• 1996 Olympics host

• 1996 Olympics host nation

• 1999 Ryder Cup champs

• 1999 Women's World Cup host

• 1999 Women's World Cup winner

• 2002 Winter Olympics site

• 2002 Winter Olympics site (Abbr.)

• 2008 'Redeem Team' uniform letters

• 232-yr.-old land

• 24-time Ryder Cup winner

• 32-time Davis Cup champ

• 33-time Walker Cup winner

• Abbr. in a Springsteen album title

• Abbr. on a spacecraft

• Abbr. on a stamp

• Abbr. on pen-pal envelopes

• Abbr. on stamps

• About 3,600,000 sq. mi. of the Western Hemisphere

• About 6.5% of the Earth's land

• About one-third of it is forested

• American's Olympics cheer

• Apollo letters

• Army monogram

• Atl./Pac. divider

• Basic cable channel

• Basic cable network

• Between Can. and Mex.

• Bin Laden fixation

• Birthplace in a 1984 charter

• Birthplace in a 1984 hit

• Birthplace in a Springsteen song

• Birthplace of The Boss

• Bloomberg Television carrier

• Book by Dos Passos

• Born In the ___

• Brother Jonathan: abbr.

• Bruce's birthplace

• Bush country

• Cable channel

• Cable channel that shows 'Monk'

• Cable inits.

• Cable network

• Cable network inits.

• Cable network owned by NBC Universal

• Cable TV channel

• Cable TV network

• Cable watcher's choice

• Calif. and Conn. are part of it

• Call letters for a Michael Phelps fan?

• Can. neighbor

• Can./Mex. separator

• Can.'s southern neighbor

• Canada neighbor: Abbr.

• Canadian neighbour (abbr.)

• Certain Olympic team letters

• Channel that, along with CBS, aired the 2000 Masters

• Chant at Lake Placid in 1980

• Chant at the Olympics

• Chant during the 2002 Olympics

• Chant heard at the Olympics

• Charter member of NATO

• Charter NATO member

• Chivas ___ (Major League Soccer team from California)

• Clothing-label letters

• Coalition of the Willing member

• Cold War country, briefly

• Cold War country, familiarly

• Cold War letters

• Cold War side

• Country blessed by Lee Greenwood

• Country for 229 yrs.

• Country in a Springsteen title

• Country in the ctr. of Jerusalem?

• Country monogram

• Country north of Mex.

• Country of which Dick Cheney became vice president in 2001

• Country s. of Canada

• Country south of Can.

• Country that joined the Allies in Apr. 1917, declaring war on Germany and changing the direction of World War I

• Country that skips every other letter in the starred answers

• Country where H

• Country whose lowest pt. is Death Valley

• Country with borders on three diff. oceans

• Crownable Miss

• Cuba's neighbor

• D. Shore sang See the ___ in your Chevrolet (1,1,1)

• D.C.'s country

• D.C.'s home

• D.C.'s land

• D.C.'s nation

• Dennis Conner's country

• Divided country

• Dogpatch ___ (bygone theme park)

• Dos Passos epic

• Dos Passos novel

• Dos Passos opus

• Dos Passos subject

• Dos Passos title

• Dos Passos trilogy

• Dos Passos trilogy title

• Dos Passos work

• Dream Team initials

• Dream Team jersey letters

• Dream Team team

• Dream Team's land

• Eleven score and thirteen year-old initials

• End of a Lee Greenwood title

• End of a patriotic cheer

• End of a Springsteen title

• End of an Anytown address

• EUR. COUNTRY

• Famous trilogy by John Dos Passos

• First nation to develop the atom bomb, 1945

• Former USSR rival

• Fourth of July celebration inits.

• Fourth-largest country in size (Abbr.)

• Frequent gold medalist in Olympic basketball

• Frequent gold-medal team in Olympic basketball

• Frequent Olympics winner

• G-8 member

• G-8 summit attendee

• G8 Summit participant

• Georgia's country

• GI's grp.

• Gold medal-winning team at the Sydney Olympics

• Good place to live because it's free

• Gp. with 50 members

• Gunther subject in 1947

• Hollywood's Hagen

• Home of 300 million plus

• Home of about 300 million

• Home of over 300 million (Abbr.)

• Home of skaters Baiul and Kwan

• Home of the Dream Team

• Home to all NFL teams

• I.O.C. member

• Initials on a rocket

• Initials on a rocket, perhaps

• Initials on a space shuttle

• Inits. on a rocket

• Intl. superpower

• It comes before Today?

• It's a free country

• It's between Can. and Mex.

• It's between the Atlantic and Pacific

• It's free

• It's in the center of Jerusalem

• It's in the heart of Jerusalem?

• It's in the Security Council

• It's N of Mex.

• It's north of Mex.

• It's south of Can.

• It's south of Canada

• It's west of the Atl.

• Its area is about 3.7 million sq. mi.

• Its capital is Washington, D.C.

• Its flag has 50 stars

• Its GNP is seven times that of the U.K.'s

• Its members are represented by stars

• Its personal savings rate is about one-third of Japan's

• Its wine consumption has increased 400% since 1970

• John Cougar Mellencamp's R.O.C.K. in the ___

• John Dos Passos trilogy

• John Dos Passos work

• John Dos Passos's ___ trilogy

• John Gunther subject

• John Gunther topic

• John Mellencamp's R.O.C.K. in the ___

• July 4th birth

• July 4th honoree

• Kerri Strug's team

• Kyoto Protocol holdout: Abbr.

• Kyoto Protocol shunner

• Lady Liberty's land

• Land between Can. and Mex.

• Land north of Mex.

• Land north of Mexico

• Land of stars and stripes

• Land of the free, for short

• Land of the Grand Old Flag (inits.)

• Land with the country code of 1

• Last part of a Lee Greenwood title

• Lee Greenwood's God Bless the ___

• Legendary Olympic hockey team of 1980

• Letters for a certain Olympics team

• Letters on a postage stamp

• Letters on a stamp

• Letters on an Olympics jersey

• Letters on Challenger

• Letters on many exported arms

• Letters on postage stamps

• Letters on stamps

• North American republic containing 50 states 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean

• Achieved independence in 1776