| LRT | Type of tramcar in Houston or Portland, Ore.: abbr. |
| NERVECELL | Around back of tramcar there's constant shifting about, little room for conductor (5,4) |
| IDA | State that borders Ore. (abbr.) |
| DEPOT | A place of distribution; a store or warehouse for arms, food, goods or other supplies; a regiment's HQ; or, a building where buses, trains or tramcars are housed or serviced (5) |
| SAND | Grains of quartz, topaz, garnet, tourmaline, shell or coral collectively from which glass, pearls, stucco or Portland cement can derive (4) |
| REED | Liberal arts college in Portland, Ore. |
| ROSES | Flowers featured at an annual festival in Portland, Ore. |
| FLYFISHINGROD | Located in Houston in British Columbia where there's lots of Steelhead in the Morice River, this giant roadside attraction is of a what?: 3 wds. |
| DOUBLEATEAM | Tennessee Smokies or Portland Sea Dogs ... or what the answers to the starred clues comprise? |
| ESE | Portland, Ore.-to-Boise dir. |
| AATEAM | Jackson Generals or Portland Sea Dogs |
| SURNAME | Dallas, Houston, or Austin, e.g. |
| TEXAN | Person from Houston or Austin, for example |
| TEX | Nickname for someone from Houston or Waco, maybe |
| STREET | Houston or Washington vis-a-vis Manhattan |
| MATRIARCH | Senior lady in tramcar: Hi! (9) |
| POPDIVA | Whitney Houston or Madonna, e.g. |
| CARGO | Goods found in tramcar goldplated (5) |
| MTHOOD | View from Portland, Ore. |
| MAINER | Augusta or Portland native |
