| MERENGUE | Dance from the Dominican Republic (8) |
| ALHORFORD | The 36-year-old from the Dominican Republic who joined the NBA in 2007 but didn't get a chance to play in the finals till 2022. (2,7) |
| CALYPSOMERENGUE | Music from Trinidad / from the Dominican Republic |
| ALOU | Baseball family from the Dominican Republic |
| OPERETTA | To repeat dance from The Mikado (8) |
| TIMEWARP | The ___, dance from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (4,4) |
| HABANERA | Cuban dance from the composer Bizet used in the opera as a song for his heroine, Carmen |
| IRISHJIG | Dance from the Emerald Isle (5,3) |
| TRUJILLO | Dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961, nicknamed El Jefe (Spanish, 'the boss') (6,8) |
| BALAGUER | Joaquin ___, Dominican statesman; president of the Dominican Republic 1960-62, 1966-78 and 1986-96 (8) |
| PALMCHAT | Small long-tailed bird in the genus Dulus; national bird of the Dominican Republic |
| FLAMENCO | Dance from The Inferno is not commissioned in quarters (8) |
| HORA | Dance from the Greek for "dance" |
| TWIST | Distort - dance from the 1960s (5) |
| JITTERBUG | Jerky dance from the 1940s (9) |
| JIVE | Dance from the 1940s (4) |
| GIJOES | Privates, ultimately restless, come to dance from the south |
| MASHEDPOTATO | Dance from the 1960s made a hotspot delirious (6,6) |
| RUEDA | Cuban street dance, from the Spanish word for "wheel" |
| BARN | Country dance from the pub up north (4) |
