| ENIWETOK | Atoll in the Pacific taken by the U.S. from Japan in 1944 (8) |
| OCEANIA | Islands of the south Pacific taken together, sometimes including Australasia (7) |
| EMPORIUM | Atoll in the Pacific Ocean taken by the US from Japan in 1944 which later became a testing ground for atomic weapons (8) |
| TOMARAYA | Slayer lead singer who came to the U.S. from Chile |
| LADYBIRD | ___ Johnson, first lady of the U.S. from 1963 to 1969 (4,4) |
| ENEWETAK | Official name for an atoll in the Marshall Islands- a US testing ground for atomic weapons (8) |
| DELEGACY | Will’s gift follows Lorraine’s from official body |
| LOCALITY | Surprisingly, icy atoll in the vicinity (8) |
| DUB | Call friend in the U.S. from the south (3) |
| NYC | Capital of the U.S. from 1785 to 1790, in brief |
| LTDS | Ford models sold in the U.S. from 1965-1986 |
| ARIEL | Series of six artificial satellites launched by the U.S. from 1962 to 1979 (5) |
| NISEI | Person born in the U.S. from Japanese emigrant parents |
| WAKE | Coral atoll in the Pacific claimed by the Marshall Islands, site of a US Air Force base (4) |
| CHRISTMAS | --- Island is a large coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean discovered by Cook in 1777 (9) |
| NANCY | ___ Reagan, former actress and first lady of the U.S. from 1981 to 1989 (5) |
| DUBBED | Called friend in U.S. from the South, would-be teacher (6) |
| TARAWA | Atoll in the Pacific on which Kiribati's seats of government - Bairiki, Betio and Ambo - are located (6) |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Pacific, site of an atomic-bomb test in 1946 (6) |
| WAKEISLAND | Coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, an unincorporated US territory between Guam and Hawaii |
