| COATI | Latin American cousin of the raccoon (5) |
| CHURRO | Funnel cake's Latin American cousin |
| RHEA | South American cousin of the emu and ostrich |
| SNEER | Cyril _, aardvark who was the nemesis of The Raccoons (5) |
| KEENE | Laura ___, actress-manager whose company's performance of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D C was attended by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination (5) |
| PANDA | Black-and-white herbivorous bearlike mammal related to the raccoon (5) |
| LLAMA | A little fella may spot the camel's South American cousin (5) |
| CIDER | Calvados's nonalcoholic American cousin |
| RHEAS | Ostriches' South American cousins |
| BELGII | Symphyotrichum novi - - - - - -, American cousin of S. novae-angliae (6) |
| PROCYONID | Any mammal of the raccoon family, including the coatis, ringtails etc. (9) |
| KINKAJOU | Relative of the raccoon with a prehensile tail (8) |
| RINGTAIL | Mammal of the raccoon family, Bassariscus astutus (8) |
| LAURAKEENE | Actress and manager whose company's performance of play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC was attended by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination (5,5) |
| RACCOONDOG | This canine, native to eastern Asia and introduced into Europe. Some authorities place it in the raccoon family, Procyonidae, possibly because it resembles the raccoon in having dark facial markings t |
| DUNDREARY | Lord ____, a caricature of an English nobleman in the play Our American Cousin, gave his name to long sideburns |
| PLYMOUTH | _ Cricket, the Hillman Avenger's American cousin (8) |
| DESMOINES | City on the Raccoon |
| PET | Rebecca the raccoon, to Calvin Coolidge |
| OUR | "__ American Cousin," play Lincoln was viewing when assassinated |
