| NOMINATIVE | Case of nobody born in Michigan (10) |
| ICON | A celebrity in charge of nobody acronymically |
| DEFY | Brave -- ultimately afraid, see, of nobody (4) |
| ADAM | Brody of "Nobody Wants This" |
| ONUS | The responsibility of nobody under suspicion initially (4) |
| GLOOSCAP | Mighty figure in Mi'kmaq lore, there is a 20-foot statue of him in Parrsboro in the Bay of Fundy area of Nova Scotia |
| ANNARBOR | City in Michigan; home of the University of Michigan (3,5) |
| NADER | Receiver of 84,165 votes in Michigan in 2000 |
| ANORDINARYKILLER | Book by Anthony Hornus, and a 2003 film about the murder of Dawn Magyar in 1973 in Michigan (2,8,6) |
| JIMHARBAUGH | University of Michigan football coach who's the highest paid public employee in Michigan: 2 wds. |
| DODGE | US automotive manufacturer founded in Michigan in 1900, taken over by Chrysler in 1928 and now owned by Fiat (5) |
| SAGINAW | City in Michigan mentioned in the Simon ' Garfunkel song America |
| DETRITUS | City in Michigan disposing of old nineteen's rubbish |
| DETROIT | Largest city in Michigan, birthplace of aviator Charles Lindbergh (7) |
| DEARBORN | City in Michigan, birthplace of Henry Ford (8) |
| GREATSALTLAKE | Sailor in Michigan, maybe? No, location in Utah (5,4,4) |
| APNEIC | Missing Lake, pelican's out of condition in Michigan (6) |
| BIGRAPIDS | City in Michigan that is the county seat of Mecosta County |
| FLINT | City in Michigan that was the birthplace of General Motors |
| SONGOFSOLOMON | 1977 novel by Toni Morrison which is about the life of an African-American man living in Michigan: 3 wds. |
