| SNAKEDANCE | Ritual of North America’s Hopi Indians |
| OCTOBER | The month in which North America’s four major sports leagues all have scheduled games |
| ALLSTON | Washington ____ pioneered America’s romantic movement of landscape painting |
| LLANERO | Inhabitant of South America’s vast plains |
| SIXSHOOTER | Hand-drawn piece of America’s frontier? |
| DIMNESS | America’s ready to embrace new Society, being stupid |
| NICARAGUA | Central America’s largest country |
| AHORSEWITHNONAME | Rock group America’s 1972 hit, originally called Desert Song |
| TEAMEUROPE | America’s opponents in the Ryder Cup |
| AGAINST | V sign America’s leader deployed at borders |
| ABASH | America’s top bishop remains humble |
| ACEINTHEHOLE | Top pilot owing money for America’s secret weapon |
| HOLLY | Once used by boys and men of Tenby, Wales, to whip unsuspecting girls on Boxing Day in a courting ritual of "holming", a plant with prickly leaves evocative of Christ's crown of thorns at the Crucifix |
| VAMP | Basically accompany America’s top couple, hosted by their second-in-command |
| ENRICOCARUSO | Italian opera singer who took part in America’s first public radio broadcast, in 1910 |
| WOBURN | - Abbey; surrounded by deer park landscaped by Humphry Repton, seat of the Dukes of Bedford, once home to Duchess Anna Maria who popularised the ritual of afternoon tea (6) |
| INITIATION | The ritual of admitting a new member into a society or group in an often secret ceremony of the same name; or, any act of beginning (10) |
| BURIAL | The ritual of placing of a corpse in a grave (6) |
| MENES | Pharaoh who founded the first dynasty of Egypt and is believed to have introduced the ritual of god |
| GAME | Derived from the annual ritual of swan-upping, the collective noun for a flock of swans when kept for pleasure (4) |
