| RICEBELT | Area consisting of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, named after a major agricultural product |
| AMARILLO | City in Texas named after its yellow subsoil (8) |
| LOUISIANA | 'Pelican State' of the southern US, bordering Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas (9) |
| LONDON | One of the 1/5 named after a major capital city (6) |
| EASTER | ___ Road, home ground of Hibernian FC named after a major Edinburgh street (6) |
| ANDESITE | Dark volcanic rock named after a major range |
| CADDO | A group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas. |
| DEEP | Name for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina (4,5) |
| SOUTH | Name for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina (4,5) |
| DEEPSOUTH | Collective name for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina (4,5) |
| EURASIA | Area consisting of one and a half continents? (7) |
| FOVEA | Area consisting of a small depression in the retina where vision is most acute. (5) |
| ANGLIA | East ___: area consisting of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk (6) |
| WETLAND | Area consisting of a marsh or swamp |
| THATCH | A roof of reed, rush or straw, banned in London in 1212 after a major fire (6) |
| ATAKAPA | A member of an Indian people formerly living along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and Texas. |
| HOUSINGESTATE | Residential area consisting of various ghettoes in USA |
| CHICKASAW | A member of a Native American people who originally occupied lands in Mississippi and Alabama, and now live mainly in Oklahoma (9) |
| TAFFETA | Cheese after a major component of it's turned to silky stuff (7) |
| GULFSTATES | Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida |
