Advocate of centralized government (7 letters)

The ___ of government (5 letters)

Bus. name ending (3 letters)

Rule ending in 1947 (3 letters)

___ f Educ. (4 letters)

Messenger (5 letters)

Choose (5 letters)

Temporary (7 letters)

Murray of "The Merry Widow": 1925 (3 letters)

U.S. narc (4 letters)

Nondrinkers: Abbr. (3 letters)

Stage lead (4 letters)

City chief (5 letters)

Keep in check, with "in" (4 letters)

Oldest U.S. civil liberties org. (3 letters)

Damascus native (6 letters)

Airplane announcement, for short (3 letters)

Strike arbitrators (4 letters)

Ness, e.g. (4 letters)

Calaboose or stir (7 letters)