| FISK | Historically black university in Tennessee |
| TUSKEGEE | Historically black university in Alabama |
| VANDERBILT | University in Tennessee |
| GRAMBLINGROSE | Pink uniform color adopted by a historically black university? |
| AKA | America's first historically Black sorority, in brief |
| SPELMAN | Historically Black women's liberal arts college in Atlanta |
| TSU | Historically Black school in Houston, briefly |
| TURBULENT | Factious Labour organisation split over black university lecturer |
| MOREHOUSE | In 2019, investor Robert Smith paid $34 million to settle the student loans of this historically Black college's graduating class |
| SAG | Historically Black beach enclave in the Hamptons that has long served as an elite refuge from racism: ___ Harbor |
| SCHOLDAZE | Spike Lee film set at a historically black college |
| BOONE | North Carolina home of the historically Black Junaluska community |
| RHO | Sigma Gamma ___ (historically Black sorority) |
| KAPPA | Alpha ___ Alpha (historically Black sorority) |
| VALUES | "I can't see another commercial and see her disguising these policies behind the words 'Tennessee Christian ___.' Those aren't Tennessee Christian ___. I live in Tennessee. I am Christian." (Taylor Sw |
| TAVERN | American boozer in state - in Tennessee |
| TRANCHE | Cash allocation farm invested in banks in Tennessee (7) |
| GREENEST | "Born on a mountain top in Tennessee; ... state in the land of the free," went the Davy Crockett the |
| MONKEY | Popular name for the proceedings in July 1925, in Tennessee, against John T Scopes, charged with teaching evolution (6,5) |
| TRIAL | Down Popular name for the proceedings in July 1925, in Tennessee, against John T Scopes, charged with teaching evolution (6,5) |
