| BELGII | Symphyotrichum novi - - - - - -, American cousin of S. novae-angliae (6) |
| TONGA | (comprising 169 islands) in the southern Pacific Ocean, as in the cultivar of New England aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii) (5) |
| ASTRONOMY | Scientific study of the planets. stars. moons, galaxies, novae (9) |
| CAILAN | Croc's South American cousin |
| ALPACA | Camel's South American cousin |
| CAIMAN | Croc's South American cousin |
| CHURRO | Funnel cake's Latin American cousin |
| SERBIA | Balkan country whose second largest city is Novi Sad (6) |
| LLAMAS | Camel's South American cousins |
| COATI | Latin American cousin of the raccoon (5) |
| RHEA | South American cousin of the emu and ostrich |
| KEENE | Laura ___, actress-manager whose company's performance of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D C was attended by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination (5) |
| LAURAKEENE | Actress and manager whose company's performance of play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC was attended by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination (5,5) |
| RICHARD | - III; last king of the House of York who is portrayed in Shakespearean plays and John Rous' armorial roll-chronicle and Historic Regum Angliae (7) |
| MICHAELMASDAISY | Symphyotrichum has mostly replaced Aster as genus of this plant (10,5) |
| KYLIE | Australian pop singer's first pale pink aster (now Symphyotrichum) (5) |
| NOVI | Symphyotrichum - - - - belgii, hybrid group of Michaelmas daisies (4) |
| ASTER | Family of daisy-like flowers including Eurybia and Symphyotrichum (5) |
| KING | Male dragonfly; highest-ranking face card; large bed; or, any of the male monarchs described in John Rous' Historia Regum Angliae (4) |
| FORTESCUE | English jurist who wrote "De laudibus legum Angliae" |
