| SCOTIA | Nova -; one of the four original provinces of Canada with Ontario, New Brunswick and Quebec (6) |
| ALBERTA | Prairie province of Canada with a population density of five people per square km (7) |
| RIOJA | Drink made with Ontario jam (5) |
| NIAGARA | Ontario-New York separator |
| QUEBEC | With the largest city Montreal, one of the 10 provinces of Canada (6) |
| ACADIA | Former French colony in the present-day Atlantic Provinces of Canada (6) |
| TACTIC | Approach leaders of India and Canada with diplomacy at first (6) |
| ULSTER | One of the four provinces of Ireland (6) |
| ALLIER | Department of France created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne and Bourbonnais |
| OTTAWA | Canadian city or the river the divides Ontario and Quebec |
| ABNAKI | Member of a Native American people formerly living in Maine and Quebec (6) |
| DEWITT | Jan, chief minister of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1653-72 (2,4) |
| FEZZAN | Name for the historic region of northern Africa and until 1963 one of the three provinces of the United Kingdom of Libya. It is part of 17 Across and now constitutes the southwestern sector of Libya. |
| UKRAINE | One of the four original republics that formed the USSR in 1922 |
| FUNDY | The Bay of --- is an inlet of the Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (5) |
| BASQUE | The Spanish provinces of Alava and Vizcaya are such |
| VARNA | Any of the four original castes (Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, Sudra) of Hinduism (5) |
| WANDERER | One of the four original Auto Union marques (8) |
| DEEPSEACABLE | In 1852, British engineer Frederic Newton Gisborne's contribution to submarine telegraphy was the laying of a ___-___ ___ (the first one in North America) connecting New Brunswick and Prince Edward Is |
| MANITOBA | Smallest by area of the three Prairie provinces of Canada, known as the Keystone Province (8) |
