| SEAISLANDCOTTON | Fine-quality yarn grown off the southern US (3-6,6) |
| GULFOFMEXICO | Vast inlet off the southern USA (4,2,6) |
| WORSTED | High-quality yarn used for carpets, clothing and hosiery (7) |
| WRONG | Bananas grown off base (5) |
| BARBARASBUTTONS | Folk name for plants in the sunflower tribe, native to the southern US (8, 7) |
| KEYLARGO | Island off the southern tip of Florida - or a Bogart movie (3,5) |
| SINGAPORE | Republic in Southeast Asia, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula (9) |
| SRILANKA | Island country located about 19 miles off the southern coast of India (3,5) |
| DEL | Tierra ___ Fuego (islands off the southern tip of South America) |
| FASTNET | UK shipping forecast area named after a rock off the southern Irish coast (7) |
| CABRERA | Island nature reserve off the southern coast of Mallorca (7) |
| ISLE | ___ of Wight (it's located off the southern coast of England) |
| ELEPHANTSEALS | Walrus-like mammals at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve just off the southern tip of Vancouver Island: 2 wds. |
| FAULKNER | The Sound And The Fury writer of the Southern US, William ... |
| OKRA | Which member of the mallow family is sometimes called lady's fingers and is used in stews and in the gumbos of the southern US? (4) |
| PALMETTO | Though technically a short palm tree from the southern United States, Mexico and Bahamas, the name is also used for the fan-leaf, the only native palm tree in Mallorca (8) |
| NEWORLEANS | Word about a loner working in the southern US (3,7) |
| VOODOO | What religious witchcraft is practised in the Caribbean and the southern US? (6) |
| ROYALPALMS | Tropical trees of the species Roystonea regia, used ornamentally in the southern US |
| ELFOWL | Small bird of prey of Mexico and the southern USA (3,3) |
