| MINNEAPOLIS | The largest city in Minnesota, on the Mississippi River adjacent to St Paul |
| SAINTPAUL | State capital of Minnesota, on the Mississippi River (5,4) |
| DEADSEA | Lady undressed, starting to swim in river adjacent to a salt-water lake (4,3) |
| BINGHAMPALACE | It's adjacent to St. James's Park |
| DULUTH | Port in Minnesota on St. Louis Bay at the west end of Lake Superior (6) |
| STLOUIS | Port on the Mississippi River; largest city in Missouri, US (2,5) |
| HANNIBAL | City and port on the Mississippi River in Missouri, US; boyhood home of Mark Twain (8) |
| BATONROUGE | State capital of Louisiana, in the SE on the Mississippi River (5,5) |
| MEMPHIS | A port in Tennessee on the Mississippi River; the site of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination (7) |
| ORLEANS | New _, port in Louisiana on the Mississippi River (7) |
| WOOLLENMILL | 19th-century textiles site in Almonte, an Ontario town on the Mississippi River: 2 wds. |
| OMAHA | City on the Mississippi River |
| STL | Missouri city on the Mississippi River: Abbr. |
| SAINTLOUIS | U.S. city, on the Mississippi River |
| DELTA | Airline named for a region on the Mississippi river |
| NNE | Upstream on the Mississippi River, along Miss. |
| IOWA | State on the Mississippi River |
| LSU | Sch. on the Mississippi River |
| STPAUL | Capital on the Mississippi River |
| EPHESIANS | Recipients of an epistle, attributed to St Paul, that forms the tenth book of the New Testament (9) |
