| UTAHPHILLIPS | "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest", folk singer and unionist, ironically born in Ohio |
| UTAH | "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest" Phillips |
| JOHNHURT | Star of I, Claudius and voice of the Great Dragon in Merlin (4,4) |
| MALI | Country of singer-songwriter Salif Keita, known as "The Golden Voice of Africa" |
| SEVEN | Number of U.S. presidents born in Ohio |
| GARFIELD | President born in Ohio |
| YUMA | The "Gateway of the Great Southwest" |
| INDIANAJONES | Fictional adventurer of the 80's with a bull whip, ironically born in New Jersey |
| ODESSA | Globe of the Great Southwest city |
| VIRGINIAWOOLF | Noted modernist writer who penned "A Room of One's Own", ironically born in Middlesex, U.K. |
| DAKOTAFANNING | She played Fern Arable in "Charlotte's Web", ironically born in Georgia |
| MATTMONRO | English singer born in 1930 dubbed 'The Man With The Golden Voice' (4,5) |
| MATT | First name of British singer called "The Man with the Golden Voice" |
| JEAN | And 4dn Scottish folk singer and authority on songs of Robert Burns (4,7) |
| SEEGER | Pete, U.S. folk singer and social activist born in 1919 (6) |
| ROBERTS | Actress in Notting Hill, Mona Lisa Smile and Fireflies in the Garden who was the voice of the main spider in the 2006 film Charlotte's Web (7) |
| WINSLET | Actress in Sense and Sensibility, The Reader, The Dressmaker, Blackbird, Ammonite and the forthcoming film Black Beauty as the voice of the title character (7) |
| ALLAN | In the 1953 animation of The Tell-Tale Heart, James Mason is the narrator and Stanley Baker is the voice of the author, Edgar ... Poe |
| TAMILNADU | Detective catches maiden and unionist (averting in Indian state) (5,4) |
| EXUBERANT | In high spirits as former partner and unionist exchange banter |
