| TRIPURA | Small state of NE India bordered to the north, south and west by Bangladesh; capital, Agartala (7) |
| OKLAHOMA | State of the south central US separated from Texas to the south and west by the Red River (8) |
| BIHAR | State of NE India bordered by Nepal to the north; capital, Patna (5) |
| NEWSSTAND | Provides updates, from North, South, and West (9) |
| TABASCO | Estado (state) of SE Mexico bordered to the north by the Gulf of Mexico; capital, Villahermosa (7) |
| INDIANA | US state bordered to the east by Ohio and west by Illinois |
| LEITRIM | County in Ireland that is bordered to the north by Donegal (7) |
| SANDALS | Bottom gear for salad of the North-South divide (7) |
| ISRAEL | Middle East country that is bordered to the north by Lebanon (6) |
| LOOE | Cornish resort split east and west by its river (4) |
| MASONDIXONLINE | Mix online and so spread the North-South divide (5-5,4) |
| LATITUDINAL | Along the north/south axis, until a tidal change |
| UTRECHT | Central region of the Netherlands bordered to the south by the Rhine (7) |
| ESTONIA | Bordered to the south by Latvia, the birth country of former chess grandmaster Paul Keres and Skype co-developer Jaan Tallinn (7) |
| ELPHABA | Titular protagonist of the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by US author Gregory Maguire (7,6) |
| HIDALGO | Small state of east central Mexico immediately north of Mexico City; capital, Pachuca de Soto (7) |
| ENSNARE | Trap half of army in east, north, south and northeast (7) |
| AMERICA | North, South and Central (7) |
| THESWAN | Stars in east, south and west in conjunction (3,4) |
| ILLINOIS | A state in the Middle West of the USA, to the south and west of Lake Michigan |
