| SUBROSA | Brother in southern USA secretly (3,4) |
| ALABAMA | Montgomery's state in southern USA (7) |
| GEORGIA | State of southern USA (7) |
| FLORIDA | State of southern USA whose capital is Tallahassee (7) |
| REDNECK | Poor White person in the southern United States (7) |
| PIROGUE | Type of dugout canoe used in southern US, Central America and Caribbean (7) |
| JIMCROW | Name given to laws in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation, named after a persona created by minstrel show performer Thomas D Rice (3,4) |
| DISUSED | Unemployed stopped living around southern United States |
| LLANO | Wide grassy plain, esp in southern USA (from Spanish) (5) |
| LOUISIANA | New Orleans' state in southern USA (9) |
| BAYOU | Marshy area in Southern USA (5) |
| HUSHPUPPY | In southern USA, deep-fried ball of maize dough (4,5) |
| ILAMA | Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pinktinged fruit. |
| NEWORLEANS | City in the southern USA (pop about 400,000), founded in 1718 (3,7) |
| NASHVILLE | State capital in the southern USA (pop about 700,000), founded in 1779 (9) |
| MIAMI | Resort city in the southern USA (pop about 440,000), incorporated in 1896 (5) |
| PECANPIE | Nutty dessert originating in the southern USA (5,3) |
| RAZORBACK | Pig breed common in the southern USA (9) |
| CREOLE | A French dialect spoken in the southern USA (6) |
| DIXIE | Pass away, having taken 9 in custody, in Southern US (5) |
