| SOREHEAD | So A H Reed novel refers to disgruntled person in the USA? (8) |
| ELGAR | Forming the basis of a long friendship, who was helped with technical details by the conductor W.H. Reed when he was commissioned by the violinist Fritz Kreisler to write Violin Concerto (1910)? (5) |
| SODALL | Nothin', to disgruntled Brits |
| FLIPFLOP | Something afoot due to policy reversal in the USA? (4-4) |
| FIFTIETH | Golden, like the last of the USA? (8) |
| APPLEPIE | What dish represents the homeliness of the USA? (5,3) |
| HONOLULU | Barack Obama was born where in the United States? (8) |
| UNCLESAM | What is a personification of the USA? (5,3) |
| TREASURY | About to visit USA? Try travelling to this DC monument (8) |
| ORTHOPEDIC | Back in the USA? One could have such a problem (10) |
| DIME | What is a 10-cent coin called in the USA? (4) |
| GREENTAX | Environmental levy welcome, new coming in - tool for USA? |
| PARTY | Miley's 2009 song was about what in the USA? (5) |
| UNFORGOTTEN | ITV drama or fun oddly acquired in the USA? (11) |
| NEWORLEANS | Salerno possibly somewhere in the USA? (3,7) |
| FED | Reserve bank controls interest rates in the USA? (3) |
| DRAFT | What is conscription called in the USA? (5) |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Who, in a story by Washington Irving, went to sleep a subject of George III and woke much later as a citizen of the United States? (3,3,6) |
| YALE | Is this the key to a top university in the United States? (4) |
| ELLIS | Which New York island was once a gateway for immigrants to the USA? (5) |
