| MCGILLIVRAY | Alexander, Native American chief who completed the Treaty of New York in 1790 (11) |
| SITTINGBULL | Native American chief who led the Sioux in the Battle of the Little Bighorn (7,4) |
| PONTIAC | Native American chief who led a struggle against the British around the Great Lakes in the 1760s (7) |
| HOWARDSTERN | Libertarian contender for governor of New York in 1994 before suddenly withdrawing |
| REDCLOUD | Native American chief who successfully resisted the Bozeman Trail development to the newly discovered Montana goldfields (3,5) |
| POWHATAN | Native American chief who was the father of Pocahontas (8) |
| HIAWATHA | Native American chief who, together with the Great Peacemaker Deganawida, founded the Iroquois Confederacy (8) |
| PITCAIRN | Island in the South Pacific, part of a UK Overseas Territory; uninhabited until the landing of the mutineers of the Bounty in 1790 (8) |
| MAE | West once dubbed the "Queen of New York" in the New Yorker |
| HOARE | "Henry the Magnificent" who laid out the gardens at Stourhead; or, his grandson, Richard, who acquired The Adoration of the Magi for said Wiltshire house in 1790 (5) |
| ORELLANA | Francisco de ?, 16th-century Spanish explorer who completed the first known navigation of the entire length of the Amazon River |
| AMUNDSEN | Explorer who completed the first traverse of the Northwest Passage solely by ship, in 1906 |
| COMANCHE | Native American Chief, possessed of firm head of hair (8) |
| NRA | Org. sued by the State of New York in 2020 |
| FALCONET | Artist who completed the Bronze Horseman in St Petersburg in 1782 (8) |
| AMYROBACH | Newswoman who completed the 2023 New York City Marathon on Sunday (along with beau T.J. Holmes) |
| SHEINELLE | ___ Jones ("Today" show co-anchor who completed the New York City Marathon on Sunday) |
| KNEE | Native American chief Sitting Bull's followers were massacred in 1890 at Wounded ... |
| AMERICANA | Maybe pictures of New York in a camera needing to be developed |
| BLERIOT | French aviator who completed the first cross-Channel flight in 1909 |
