| YUKON | Northwest Canada territory |
| INUIT | Indigenous people of Greenland and northwest Canada (5) |
| GREAT | & 22A - Lake, body of water in NW Canada drained by the Mackenzie River into the Arctic Ocean (5,5) |
| DENE | Indigenous people of northwest Canada |
| YUKONTERRITORY | Region of NW Canada (5,9) |
| KLONDIKE | Region in the Yukon, northwest Canada; site of rich gold deposits discovered in 1896 |
| WHITEHORSE | Capital of the Yukon Territory in NW Canada, situated on the Alaska Highway (10) |
| GREATBEARLAKE | NW Canada body of water |
| GREATSLAVE | ? Lake, body of water in NW Canada drained by the Mackenzie River into the Arctic Ocean |
| GOLDRUSH | Mass migration such as that by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in NW Canada between 1896 and 1899 |
| ROAD | Fly-on-the-wall series about mining-supply drivers in frozen NW Canada, Ice ___ Truckers |
| KNIFE | Yellow-----, capital of Canada's Northwest Territories (5) |
| SOUND | Deep inlet of the Pacific Ocean in northwest Washington, US (5,5) |
| PUGET | Deep inlet of the Pacific Ocean in northwest Washington, US (5,5) |
| BASLE | City of northwest Switzerland (5) |
| LUTON | Town and airport northwest of London (5) |
| ESSEN | Industrial city of northwest Germany (5) |
| TURIN | Industrial city in northwest Italy (5) |
| GENOA | Northwest Italian port (5) |
| IDAHO | State of northwest US (5) |