| SALTONSEA | Shallow rift lake in the Colorado Desert (6,3) |
| COACHELLA | Annual music festival held in the Colorado Desert |
| SALTON | California's ___ Sea (rift lake) |
| SOCAL | Area bordering the Colorado Desert, for short |
| WALAPAI | A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona. |
| SOLDIERBLUE | 1970 Western inspired by the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory |
| MOUNTAINDOOBIE | Means to getting high in the Colorado Rockies? |
| VAIL | Ski resort in the Colorado Rockies |
| HOOVERDAM | Barrier in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the states of Nevada and Arizona (6,3) |
| ODES | Lines written in Colorado desert (4) |
| OERSTED | Field unit back in Colorado Desert base |
| DONBAYLOR | The Colorado Rockies' first manager |
| GILARIVER | It joins the Colorado near Yuma |
| VIGILANCE | Tributary of the Colorado River protected by Lombardi's watchfulness (9) |
| YUMA | Part of North America's Sonoran Desert. It lies south of the Gila River and east of the Colorado River in the extreme southwestern corner of Arizona. |
| MEAD | Lake ... is a reservoir in Arizona and Nevada formed by the Hoover Dam across the Colorado River (4) |
| NLCS | The last thing the Colorado Rockies won in 2007: Abbr. |
| AUSTIN | Which US city, on the Colorado River and the railway line to San Antonio, is the capital of Texas? ( |
| GRANDCANYON | This wondrous pathway of the Colorado River through Arizona became a national park in 1919, the ... |
| GRANDJUNCTION | City at the confluence of the Colorado and Gunnison Rivers, incorporated in 1882 (5,8) |
