| ENGLISHMUFFINS | Food items introduced to the United States by Samuel Thomas circa 1880 |
| CHACHA | Cuban dance introduced to the United States in the early 1950s |
| BIGMAC | Food item introduced in 1968 |
| BECKETT | Samuel Thomas (7) |
| EXHIBITC | Third item introduced as evidence |
| STATUEOF | Monument given to the United States by France, the ... Liberty (6,2) |
| 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 |
| PETERMANDELSON | Former Labour Party minister appointed British Ambassador to the United States by Keir Starmer in 2025 (5,9) |
| BANJO | African in origin, this instrument was popularized in the United States by enslaved people in the 19th century. It has a tambourine-like body with a hoop and a screw that secure the vellum belly to th |
| ALASKA | The largest state of the United States by area (6) |
| UNCLESAM | Representation of the USA by pawnbrokers before midday (5,3) |
| GUAM | Largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, ceded to the US by Spain in 1898 (4) |
| POKER | Card game brought to the US by French immigrants and spread by Mississippi riverboat crews (5) |
| BORN | "____ in the USA" by Springsteen |
| MEMPHISBELLE | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress whose aircrew was the first in the US Eighth Air Force to complete 25 missions in Europe and return to the United States |
| DOER | Winnipeg-born diplomat Gary ___ (The Canadian Ambassador to the United States, from 2009 to 2016) |
| ARIZONA | Last of the contiguous states admitted to the United States (7) |
| UTAH | Largest of the four-letter states by size |
| ACKER | Clarinettist whose Stranger On The Shore was the first Billboard Hot 100 No 1 in the US by a British artist (5,4) |
| BILK | Clarinettist whose Stranger On The Shore was the first Billboard Hot 100 No 1 in the US by a British artist (5,4) |
