| ELFOWL | Small bird of prey of Mexico and the southern USA (3,3) |
| NADENE | Group of North American languages spoken in parts of Alaska, Canada and the southern US (2-4) |
| VOODOO | What religious witchcraft is practised in the Caribbean and the southern US? (6) |
| MESCAL | Alternative name for the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) of Mexico and the southwestern US (6) |
| JOSHUA | ___ tree, Yucca plant of Mexico and the south-west USA (6) |
| VERDIN | Species of penduline tit, native to the southern USA (6) |
| EAGLET | Small bird of prey to get drunk with ale (6) |
| PEYOTE | Cactus of Mexico and the southwestern U.S. also called mescal (6) |
| CREOLE | A French dialect spoken in the southern USA (6) |
| PECANS | Hickory trees of the Southern United States, having sweet deeply-grooved edible nuts (6) |
| OZARKS | Heavily forested group of highlands in the southern United States (6) |
| CHOLLA | Spiny cactus of the genus Opuntia found in Mexico and the south-western US; from Spanish, 'head' or skull' (6) |
| TOMTIT | A small bird of the Paridae family |
| FRIJOL | Generic term for bean, especially in Mexico and the south-western USA (6) |
| MARTIN | Any of various small birds of the swallow family with a square or slightly forked tail (6) |
| SCREECHOWL | Any of various small birds of prey of the genus Megascops, especially the common M. asio of North American (7,3) |
| CANARY | Little bird of mine? |
| SCREECH | _ owls, small birds of prey of the genus Megascops, native to the Americas (7) |
| YUCATAN | Peninsula of Central America between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean (7) |
| BRER | Trickster character in the African-American oral tradition of the Southern USA, _ Rabbit (4) |
