| MEXICO | Country in Central America, bordered by the USA (6) |
| BELIZE | Country on the Eastern coast of Central America, bordered by Mexico and Guatemala (6) |
| CIUDADDEMEXICO | Spanish name for the national capital of the federal republic bordered by the US? (6,2,6) |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific used as a nuclear weapon testing site by the United States between 1946 and 1958 (6) |
| ALASKA | Land bought by the USA from Russia in 1867 (6) |
| EUROPE | Present-day continent composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia. The area is bordered by the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans and the Mediterranean and Black Seas. (6) |
| PANAMA | A country in Central America (6) |
| GRAMMY | Award presented by the United States Recording Academy for outstanding achievement in music (6) |
| IBERIA | Area bordered by the Atlantic and the Pyrenees |
| TARIJA | City in southern Bolivia bordered by the Guadalquivir River |
| ANGOLA | Land bordered by the Congo |
| SONORA | State bordered by the Colorado River |
| ARABIA | Peninsula bordered by the Red Sea |
| AFRICA | It's bordered by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans |
| HAWAII | Pacific islands annexed by the United States on July 7, 1898; statehood would follow many decades later |
| GREATBASIN | North American region bordered by the Sierra Nevada range on the west, the Wasatch Mountains on the east, the Columbia Plateau on the north, and the Mojave Desert on the south. |
| LOUISIANA | The western part of this state on the Mississippi was acquired by the United States by the purchase in 1803 which included a huge area of the Midwest |
| GOLDMAN | Emma ____, anarchist deported by the USA to the Soviet Union in 1919 |
| HOKKAIDO | The northernmost of the four main islands of Japan. It is bordered by the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the Sea of Okhotsk to the north, and the Pacific Ocean. (8) |
| ELSALVADOR | The smallest country in Central America, around half the size of Wales with double the population (2,8) |
