| CHESAPEAKEBAY | Estuary in the US states of Maryland and Virginia |
| CHESAPEAKE | ----------Bay, the largest estuary in the US (10) |
| PORTLAND | Name shared by the most populous cities of the US states of Maine and Oregon (8) |
| NEWENGLAND | Region including the US states of Maine and Vermont |
| EMS | Capitals of Maryland and Michigan? |
| OAK | State tree of Maryland and Iowa |
| DEL | Neighbor of Md. and Penn. |
| BALTIMORE | The largest city in the US state of Maryland (9) |
| POTOMAC | River that forms part of the borders between Washington, DC and Virginia and between Maryland and Virginia |
| BAY | Inlet of the Atlantic in Maryland and Virginia, US (10.3) |
| ANNAPOLIS | The capital of the US state of Maryland, end point for the 3,000-mile annual Race Across America bicycle race (9) |
| ARNSIDE | Cumbrian village on the Kent estuary, in the northeast corner of Morecambe Bay |
| HENRIETTA | The US state of Maryland was named after this wife of Charles I of England, Princess ... Maria |
| ESTATES | Properties in Maryland and Virginia, for example |
| EDEN | River in Cumbria that flows northwestward to its estuary in the Solway Firth (4) |
| ARIZONA | Song about head of zoo working in one of the US states (7) |
| ALASKA | What is the largest of the US states? (6) |
| IDAHO | Of the US states with land borders with Canada, ____ has the shortest |
| CANVEYISLAND | Area of land in the Thames Estuary in Essex, separated from the mainland by a network of creeks (6,6) |
| MALDON | Market town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex noted for salt that was the site of a battle in 991 described in an Old English poem (6) |
