| HOLLYWOODBOWL | Amphitheatre in Los Angeles that officially opened in 1922 |
| GRIFFITH | ____ Observatory, scientific site in Los Angeles that opened in 1935 (8) |
| DODGERS | Baseball team in Los Angeles that won the World Series in 2020 (7) |
| REDONDOBEACH | City in Los Angeles that is the destination of the family in the 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine |
| LIMA | I'm in Los Angeles, that great city |
| SUNSETBOULEVARD | 22-mile-long highway in Los Angeles that stretches from the central downtown area to the Pacific Ocean (6,9) |
| EMPIRESTATE | New York City skyscraper officially opened in 1931 (6,5,8) |
| TCH | National thoroughfare officially opened in 1962 [acronym] |
| BUILDING | New York City skyscraper officially opened in 1931 (8) |
| SANTAMONICA | City in California west of Los Angeles that houses a municipal airport (5,6) |
| PALACE | Speed around Los Angeles, that grand place (6) |
| SANLUIS | US city midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles that houses the California Polytechnic State Un |
| PLO | Gp. that officially recognized the State of Israel in 1988 |
| USSR | Cold War federation that officially ended in 1991 (1,1,1,1) |
| STOLI | Vodka that officially dropped the "-chnaya" from its name in 2022 |
| SCLASS | Noted Mercedes series that officially began with the W116 in 1972 (1-5) |
| COLOSSEUM | An amphitheatre in Rome, completed in 80 AD (9) |
| RING | Amphitheatre in Trier, in Germany (4) |
| GATWICK | An alternative to Heathrow, this London airport was officially opened by the Queen in 1958 |
| PARIS | City that's home to the Arc de Triomphe, which officially opened July 29, 1836 |
