| MEMPHIS | A port in Tennessee on the Mississippi River; the site of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination (7) |
| SOMME | French river: the site of battles in the First World War (5) |
| KNOXVILLE | A former state capital of Tennessee, on the Tennessee River (9) |
| CHATTANOOGA | US city in SE Tennessee on the Tennessee River (11) |
| ORLEANS | New _, port in Louisiana on the Mississippi River (7) |
| STLOUIS | Port on the Mississippi River; largest city in Missouri, US (2,5) |
| ATLANTA | Birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr |
| INDIANS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| AMERICANENGLISH | Reinterpretation of Anglicanism here in the words of Martin Luther King, say? (8,7) |
| RFK | Deliverer of a noted speech upon the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (4/4/1968), in brief |
| HANNIBAL | City and port on the Mississippi River in Missouri, US; boyhood home of Mark Twain (8) |
| BATONROUGE | State capital of Louisiana, in the SE on the Mississippi River (5,5) |
| REGICIDE | The murder of Martin Luther King perhaps by soldier and police in Lough (8) |
| WOOLLENMILL | 19th-century textiles site in Almonte, an Ontario town on the Mississippi River: 2 wds. |
| MINNEAPOLIS | The largest city in Minnesota, on the Mississippi River adjacent to St Paul |
| FREEATLAST | Final words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech |
| EARL | James ___ Ray (suspected assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured in 1968) |
| HOSEA | Civil rights leader Williams, who was an associate of Martin Luther King Jr. |
| DELTA | Airline named for a region on the Mississippi river |
| SAINTPAUL | State capital of Minnesota, on the Mississippi River (5,4) |
