| ELMIRA | Where writer Mark Twain (b.1835 - d.1910) is buried in upstate New York |
| SAENS | Camille Saint-___ (b.1835 d.1921 ...French composer of "Danse Macabre") |
| TOLSTOY | Writer of War and Peace, d.1910 (7) |
| HUCKLEBERRYFINN | Character created by U.S. writer Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (11,4) |
| CLEMENS | Real surname of the American writer Mark Twain (7) |
| BUFFALO | US showman, one settled in upstate New York? (7,4) |
| UTICA | City in upstate New York between Albany and Rochester |
| FINGERLAKES | *Group of narrow bodies of water in upstate New York |
| SARATOGA | Oldest US racecourse, in upstate New York (8) |
| OSWEGO | ? River, large stream in upstate New York, US, flowing into Lake Ontario |
| WESTPOINT | US military academy in upstate New York (4,5) |
| SARATOGASPRINGS | City in upstate New York with horse racing |
| TRICITY | ___ area (Albany, Troy, and Schenectady, in Upstate New York, e.g.) |
| LAKEPLACID | 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympic host in upstate New York (4,6) |
| TROY | City on the Hudson in upstate New York |
| THOUSANDISLANDS | Group of about 1,500 in upstate New York |
| RPI | Sch. in upstate New York |
| SIENA | College in upstate New York |
| ERIE | Most populous county in upstate New York |
| PNIN | Nabokov book set in upstate New York |
