| LAPD | First law enforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910) |
| DEA | Law enforcement org. in "Delta Force 2" |
| BARBARA | Obstacle repeatedly met by a female officer in SA |
| SHELTER | Accommodate a female officer with hesitation (7) |
| MAAM | Address a female officer like this, not "mama"! |
| SHERIFF | A person elected in the U.S. to enforce the law in a particular county (7) |
| SUDOKU | Puzzle that moved from the U.S. to Japan to England and back to the U.S. |
| IKEA | Company that was the first in the U.S. to air a TV ad with a gay couple (1994) |
| OBERLIN | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women |
| LITTLELEAGUE | Curacao shocked the world in 2004 by defeating the U.S. to win this sporting organization's world championship |
| CALI | Only place in the U.S. to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics, informally |
| LASORDA | He managed the U.S. to its first Olympic gold in baseball |
| ROEBUCK | Line, it's said, with money in the U.S. to get male deer (7) |
| ENOLAGAY | Name of the B-29 bomber that was used by the U.S. to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (5,3) |
| AARP | Senior's org., in the U.S. |
| MAINLAND | The rest of the U.S., to Hawaiians |
| ALLY | The U.S., to England, in W.W. II |
| HAITI | Second Western Hemisphere nation (after the U.S.) to achieve independence |
| AMMO | Some military supplies transferred by the U.S. to Ukraine, for short |
| SFPD | Law enforcement org. featured in "Bullitt" |
