| LAUDERDALE | County in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee |
| DEEPSOUTH | Region that includes Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana: 2 wds. |
| TENNESSEE | US state bordered by Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri (9) |
| SOUTHPOULTRY | Chicken from Alabama, Mississippi, etc.? |
| CHICKASAW | A member of a Native American people who originally occupied lands in Mississippi and Alabama, and now live mainly in Oklahoma (9) |
| REINSTATES | Brings back the teaching of religion in Alabama and Tennessee? |
| LEE | County of Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama |
| STATE | It's bad taste in Mississippi and Alabama maybe (5) |
| ASHE | North Carolina county that borders Virginia and Tennessee |
| SMOKY | Great ___ Mountains National Park (attraction in North Carolina and Tennessee) |
| ETATS | Texas and Tennessee, in Toulouse |
| ALLIGATOR | Genus of saurian reptile, common in the lower Mississippi and adjacent lakes and marshes (9) |
| PADUCAH | City in Kentucky, US, at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers (7) |
| CUMBERLANDGAP | Pass in the Appalachian Mountains, used by pioneers to reach Kentucky and Tennessee |
| TRIVIA | "Hawaii and Tennessee are the only two U.S. states whose names end in doubled letters," e.g. |
| KEYWEST | Island in the Straits of Florida associated with Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams |
| PASADENASHVILLE | California and Tennessee cities merge? |
| STJAMES | Place between Virginia and Tennessee? |
| NORTHCAROLINA | US state bordering Virginia and Tennessee |
| LASTNAME | Louisiana and Tennessee dons - like Corleone, perhaps? (4,4) |
