| TALLAHASSEE | After Austin, Texas, the southernmost state capital in the continental United States (11) |
| KEYWEST | What is the southernmost city in the continental United States? (3,4) |
| ACRES | There are about 1.9 billion of them in the continental United States |
| FLORIDAKEYS | Southernmost part of the continental United States |
| CHIAPASAHOY | "I can see Mexico's southernmost state from this ship!"? |
| FLA | Southernmost state in the continental US: Abbr. |
| OBAMA | First president born outside of the continental United States |
| ACADIA | National park where (for part of the year) you can see the earliest sunrise in the continental US |
| TEXAS | Largest state in the continental US |
| SALEM | Westernmost state capital in the contiguous United States |
| MADISON | State capital in the US (pop about 250,000), founded in 1829 (7) |
| NASHVILLE | State capital in the southern USA (pop about 700,000), founded in 1779 (9) |
| AMARILLO | An industrial city in North West Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle (8) |
| TAHOE | Deepest lake in the continental USA |
| PIERRE | State capital in the... Midwest? North? Who even knows |
| COLUMBIA | Holy man took one into a state capital in the US (8) |
| TRENTON | Have no time to rent out a state capital in the US (7) |
| GEORGIA | The southernmost state on the trail is ___ (7) |
| ALAMO | The ---, a mission in San Antonio, Texas, the site of a siege and massacre in 1836 (5) |
| BOISE | State capital in the so-called "Treasure Valley" |
