| GALBRAITH | J K ___, economist whose books include The New Industrial State and The Affluent Society (9) |
| BEVERIDGE | William ---, British economist whose 1942 report served as the basis for the post World War II welfare state (9) |
| ARKLAHOMA | Area at the border of the Natural State and the Sooner State |
| KENNESSEE | Area at the border of the Bluegrass State and the Volunteer State |
| STVINCENT | Caribbean state, ... and The Grenadines (2,7) |
| ELECTRICS | Choose mostly affluent society circuits |
| KENNETHGALBRAITH | John ...... , Canadian-American economist and diplomat who wrote The Affluent Society in 1958 (7,9) |
| AUSTER | Paul, U.S. novelist and essayist whose books include the New York Trilogy (6) |
| WEBER | Max ___, German sociologist and political economist whose works include The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
| IDAHO | US Gem State bordered by the Treasure State and the Silver State (5) |
| JOHNGOODMAN | Atomic Blonde, Flight, Patriots Day, The Flintstones, Captive State and The Big Lebowski are films in which this US actor, who played the role of Dan Conner in the TV series Roseanne, starred (4,7) |
| DVORAK | Antonin ---, Czech Romantic composer whose works include the New World Symphony (6) |
| TAHOE | Lake between the Silver State and the Golden State |
| NSC | Group that includes the Secy. of State and the Secy. of Defense |
| THAR | Desert located in Rajasthan state and the Sindh region, also called the Great Indian Desert (4) |
| EASTSUSSEX | Time to leave new US states and the other part of the country (4,6) |
| NEAREAST | Former name for the Balkan States and the area of the Ottoman Empire (4,4) |
| SIMMONS | J.K. _, star of Whiplash and Spider-Man: No Way Home (7) |
| KEYNES | John Maynard ?, English economist whose works include 1930's A Treatise on Money (6) |
| NAIPAUL | Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author of A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
