| OKLAHOMAN | Any resident of a central US state which has only one major league sports franchise, an NBA team (9) |
| IOWAN | Any resident of 46-Across |
| WHORL | Arrangement which has only radial leaves at first (5) |
| HORROR | Genre which has only won the Oscar for Best Picture once (6) |
| PUTSANENDTO | Finishes the word "send", which has only S? (4,2,3,2) |
| TENNESSEE | US state which has Nashville as its capital (9) |
| NEWMEXICO | State which has the US's highest percentage of Hispanic and Latino Americans (3,6) |
| WISCONSIN | US state which shares a border with Minnesota (9) |
| PENNIFORM | Feather-shaped, as of muscles whose fibres (fascicles) are attached to either side of a central tendon (9) |
| NORMALISE | Make standard design of mails after adding one major tip at the end (9) |
| MINNESOTA | North central US state (9) |
| GUATEMALA | Had food coated in chewy stuff, in the manner of a Central American country (9) |
| LOUISIANA | American state which has Acadian ancestry from Canada |
| COSTARICA | Acting partner in charge of a Central American country (5,4) |
| MONTANA | US state which is 100,000 sq km bigger than New Zealand, but has a population of only 1m (7) |
| ARKANSAS | US state which has Little Rock as its capital (8) |
| KANSAS | US state which has Topeka as its capital (6) |
| KENTUCKY | US state which has Frankfort as its capital (8) |
| CALIFORNIA | US state which has Sacramento as its capital (10) |
| MISSISSIPPI | US state which has Jackson as its capital (11) |
