| BASIN | Semiarid region of the western US between the Wasatch and the Sierra Nevada Mountains (5,5) |
| GREAT | Semiarid region of the western US between the Wasatch and the Sierra Nevada Mountains (5,5) |
| CHAMPLAIN | Lake --- lies in the US between the Green Mountains and the Adirondack Mountains (9) |
| ECOL | Science that Greenpeace and the Sierra Club are concerned with: Abbr. |
| SUSAN | Name of the states between the south and north (5) |
| GREATBASIN | North American region bordered by the Sierra Nevada range on the west, the Wasatch Mountains on the east, the Columbia Plateau on the north, and the Mojave Desert on the south. |
| CALIFORNIA | State of the western US that has the world's 5th-largest economy (10) |
| SULUSEA | Region of the western North Pacific between northeastern Borneo and the southwestern islands of the Philippines (4,3) |
| SAHEL | Semiarid region of western and north central Africa extending from Senegal to Sudan (5) |
| DIKDIK | Small antelope of the genus Madoqua of semiarid regions of Africa (3-3) |
| TAHOE | Lake ?, body of water in the Sierra Nevada mountains on the border between California and Nevada, US (5) |
| SARGASSO | Sea forming an oval region of the western North Atlantic between the Azores and the Caribbean (8) |
| SPANISHMAIN | Former name of the northern coast of South America between the Orinoco River and Panama (7,4) |
| YUCATAN | Peninsula of Central America between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (7) |
| FL | A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. |
| CHACO | The Gran --- is a plain of central South America between the Andes and Paraguay (5) |
| KAROO | Semiarid region of South Africa's Western Cape (5) |
| RENO | A city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains |
| GRANADA | City and capital of a Spanish province, located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains (7) |
| LATIN | ___ America (region of the Western Hemisphere whose missing word is formed by anagramming the middle five letters of "faintly") |
