| WVA | State whose capital is Charleston: Abbr. |
| WV | Its capital Charleston (abbr) (2) |
| WEST | US state whose capital is Charleston (4,8) |
| WESTVIRGINIA | American state whose capital is Charleston (4,8) |
| VIRGINIA | US state whose capital is Charleston (8) |
| SOUTHCAROLINA | US state in which Charleston is found (5,8) |
| BELL | Virginia Woolf's elder sister whose home at Charleston was a retreat for the Bloomsbury set; an artist in the Abstract style whose paintings include Flowers in a Ginger Jar and Cotton, Lavender and Qu |
| HEIGL | Charleston Tucker in State Of Affairs |
| AFBS | Charleston and Dover, e.g.: Abbr. |
| SSE | Dir. from Charleston, WV to Charleston, SC |
| YEAGER | Charleston, West Virginia's airport is named for him |
| DANCEHALL | In Charleston, for example, large room is used for ball |
| ABIDANCE | Sailor is first person from Charleston in the process of going with the flow (8) |
| GRANT | Bloomsbury Group artist whose paintings include Farmyard Buildings at Charleston, Sussex and Still Life with a Bust of Vanessa Bell (5) |
| DURANCE | Old city consumed by Charleston - in the old sense, a state of confinement (7) |
| GOODRIDDANCE | What you might say if someone you don't like is going to virtuous religious leader for papers from Charleston (4,8) |
| CHACHACHA | "The Charleston," one starts stuttering, "is a dance" (3-3-3) |
| BLOOMSBURY | District of London associated with a coterie of creatives whose artistic and literary output includes A Room of One's Own, Eminent Victorians, Howards End and The Kitchen at Charleston (10) |
| OSCAR | Baseball Hall-of-Famer Charleston |
| CITADEL | Charleston college, with "The" |
