| OLIVETREE | "And over the ____s [...] that were in the low plain was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash" (1 Chronicles 27:28) |
| NAOS | Cella |
| OYSTER | The ____s that produce pearls are in a different family from the edible ones |
| CUCKOO | One Flew Over the _'s Nest, 1975 Jack Nicholson film (6) |
| SOCLE | Low plain plinth used as a support for a statue, column etc. or as the foundation of a wall (5) |
| MOOLI | Low plain regularly producing root vegetable |
| LOSER | "I guess I just didn't fully grasp how many ___s there are in the world. Like I knew there were a lot of ___s out there, but the amount of ___s that would have to exist to, one, make this product feas |
| CARRYON | Franchise of popular British comedy films that were in the tradition of music hall and bawdy seaside postcands (5,2) |
| EASTERNSEABOARD | Region of the U.S. that extends from Maine in the north to Florida in the south (7,8) |
| FOURSTATES | Cimarron County, at the western end of Oklahoma's panhandle, is the only county in the U.S. that borders this |
| PLUMS | "I have eaten / the ___ / that were in / the icebox . . .": William Carlos Williams |
| EATEN | "I have ___ the plums that were in the icebox" |
| FELLAS | "___ that were in the mood" ("Vogue" line) |
| INDEPENDENCE | ___ Day, annual federal holiday in the U.S. that celebrates the country's nationhood (12) |
| THEROCKIES | Byname of the mountain range forming the backbone of the western U.S. that stretches from Canada to New Mexico (3,7) |
| IVYLEAGUE | A group of elite universities in the northeastern U.S. that includes Princeton and Yale (3,6) |
| IDAHO | "My Own Private ___" (1991 film set in the Northwestern U.S. that helped bring queer cinema to the mainstream) |
| OLDNICK | He's been upstairs and downstairs and over the hill to score (3,4) |
| ROCKANDROLL | Take Stone and go over and over the music (4-3-4) |
| MUSTANG | A feral horse in the U.S. that is typically small and lightly built (7) |
