| PLAINS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| INDIANS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| YAZOO | Mississippi river to the Mississippi River |
| GAR | Giant from the Mississippi River |
| SOUTHCHINASEA | Part of the Pacific Ocean encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan (5,5,3) |
| ONANDAGA | Member of an Iroquois people formerly occupying an area near Syracuse, New York (8) |
| POWWOW | What is a gathering, with dancing, held by many Native American and First Nations communities? (6) |
| OSAGE | Member of the Native American people, once occupying the Missouri valley (5) |
| CANOE | Boat in many Native American cultures |
| APRON | Expert occupying an area of stage (5) |
| SPRUCE | Smart police force once occupying small gym |
| MITTELEUROPA | German term for, roughly, the area from the Rhine to the Vistula and the Baltic to the Balkans (12) |
| NEEDLE | As for the vaccine: a shot in the arm for the many, rib for the few! (6) |
| HOIPOLLOI | From Greek for "the many", what is a derogatory term for the common people? (3,6) |
| BISONSKULL | Item that appears on Montana's state quarter due to its religious significance to Native American tribes in the region (2 wds.) |
| KINGSEVIL | A term for the disease scrofula once thought to be curable by a monarch's touch (5,4) |
| SUMPSIMUS | Taken from a Latin prayer, a term for the correct equivalent of an incorrect but popular expression |
| NUTHATCH | Known collectively as a booby and often occupying an old nest hole of a woodpecker, a "mud dabbler" in the genus Sitta that derives its main name from hacking at acorns, beech mast, cobs and other ker |
| ETAGE | French word for a floor or storey; or, a term for the grouping of cloud height in meteorology (5) |
| DACTYLIOLOGY | From Greek for "finger", a term for the study or lore of finger-rings or of engraved antique gems (12) |
