| COTTONBELT | Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, originally |
| CREEK | Native American people of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, also known as the Muscogee (5) |
| MINING | One of the 3M Company's M's, originally |
| ALA | State between Georgia and Mississippi: Abbr. |
| THEDEEPSOUTH | Collective term for Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi |
| DEEP | Name for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina (4,5) |
| SOUTH | Name for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina (4,5) |
| DEEPSOUTH | Collective name for the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina (4,5) |
| CHATTAHOOCHEE | Alabama/Georgia river |
| MAGNOLIA | This tree is the floral emblem of the nation of North Korea and the state flower of both Louisiana and Mississippi |
| GULFSPIRIT | Ghost that haunts the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi? |
| DELTAS | Nile and Mississippi ___ |
| RIVERS | Amazon and Mississippi |
| IOWA | State between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers |
| OHMS | Units from Ohio and Mississippi (4) |
| NINASIMONE | "Baltimore" and "Mississippi Goddam" singer |
| NORMS | Standards in Nevada firstly, Oregon and Mississippi (5) |
| MEMPHIS | Name of city at different times overlooking the Nile and Mississippi? (7) |
| GENEHACKMAN | Two-time Academy Award-winning actor whose movies include The French Connection and Mississippi Burning (4,7) |
| CAIRO | City on the Nile - or at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers (5) |
