| KLAN | Terror group in "Mississippi Burning" |
| NAACP | Org. in "Mississippi Burning" |
| RIOTER | Protestor in Ontario terror group (6) |
| DISSEISIN | Terror group around London area in racket, taking land illegally |
| ICES | Sounds like terror group produced Frost's work (4) |
| ISLAMIC | Terror group erroneously claim to be this (7) |
| DAFOE | Mississippi Burning star Willem |
| FBIAGENT | "Mississippi Burning" part |
| DEATHSQUADS | S. American revolutionary terror groups |
| HACKMAN | Five time Academy Award nominated retired US actor, whose films include Mississippi Burning, The French Connection, Superman, Enemy of the States and Heist (4,7) |
| GENE | Five time Academy Award nominated retired US actor, whose films include Mississippi Burning, The French Connection, Superman, Enemy of the States and Heist (4,7) |
| GENEHACKMAN | Two-time Academy Award-winning actor whose movies include The French Connection and Mississippi Burning (4,7) |
| YAZOO | Mississippi tributary in Mississippi |
| BBKING | Pioneering blues guitarist born in Mississippi in 1925 |
| CHOCTAW | In 1820, which Native American tribe ceded five million acres in Mississippi for cotton growing? (7) |
| OPRAH | Former talk show host, born in Mississippi in 1954 (5) |
| VICKSBURG | City in Mississippi, site of an 1863 siege in the American Civil War (9) |
| CHICKASAW | A member of a Native American people who originally occupied lands in Mississippi and Alabama, and now live mainly in Oklahoma (9) |
| SHORTI | One of three letters in "Mississippi" |
| ESSES | There are four in Mississippi |
