| JIMCROW | Name given to laws in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation, named after a persona created by minstrel show performer Thomas D Rice (3,4) |
| CLOSINGTIMES | Shutting up the newspaper? They?re the laws in the spirit world (7,5) |
| ENSUED | Happened to go to law, in extremity (6) |
| DEJURE | According to law, in writs |
| COPPERHEAD | A venomous snake found in swampy, rocky, and wooded regions of the eastern and central United States that is named for its reddish head color. |
| FLORIDA | Large peninsula in the southeastern United States that also makes up the 27th U.S. state. (7) |
| WTO | Global trade organization informed by the United States that India's request for consultations on automotive tariffs was unfounded.(abbrv) (3) |
| GILAMONSTER | A venomous lizard that lives in the southern United States and northern Mexico |
| 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) |
| TRAPMUSIC | *Hip-hop subgenre that originated in the Southern United States |
| REDNECK | Poor White person in the southern United States (7) |
| OZARKS | Heavily forested group of highlands in the southern United States (6) |
| PICAYUNE | A Spanish-American half-real coin formerly used in parts of the southern United States (8) |
| GUMBO | A type of soup or stew from the Southern United States, usually containing okra (5) |
| DIXIE | Popular song about the southern United States attributed to minstrel Daniel Decatur Emmett (1859) (5) |
| PECANS | Hickory trees of the Southern United States, having sweet deeply-grooved edible nuts (6) |
| DIAMONDBACKTERRAPIN | Species of turtle native to the eastern and southern United States belonging to the monotypic genus Malaclemys |
| PECAN | Nut tree of the southern United States and Mexico (5) |
| ILAMA | Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pinktinged fruit. |
| APARTHEID | Nelson Mandela was a key figure in the struggle against this South African regime of racial segregation |
