| OZARK | - Mountains, US range of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma (5) |
| 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. |
| OZARKS | Mountain range of Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma (6) |
| OSAGE | County name in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma |
| OKLAHOMA | US state west of Arkansas and north of Texas |
| CATSKILLS | Maybe hearing, hunting and pouncing in US range (9) |
| TENNESSEE | US state bordered by Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri (9) |
| EDEN | Actress Brolin of "Arkansas" and "Yellowstone" |
| SANDWICH | Crush of Arkansas and Wichita (8) |
| KATY | Houston suburb named for initials from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad |
| COLORADO | US state bordered by Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma (8) |
| EARWAX | Arkansas and Washington in former canal's potential blockage (6) |
| ARMADILLO | American insect-eater sick twice between Arkansas and Ohio (9) |
| ARID | Arkansas and Idaho are dry (4) |
| SIERRAS | Western US range |
| SHAWNEE | Native American people of an Algonquian speaking tribe, after whom cities in Kansas and Oklahoma are named (7) |
| KANSAS | US state bordered by Nebraska and Oklahoma (6) |
| CHICKASAW | Native American people of Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma (9) |
| MUSICALS | US claims special treatment for Chicago and Oklahoma! (8) |
| SEMINOLE | Native American people of Florida and Oklahoma |
