| TUSCALOOSA | Industrial city in Alabama, US, on the Black Warrior River |
| MOBILE | Only saltwater port in Alabama, USA (6) |
| BIRMINGHAM | City in England...or the largest city in Alabama |
| STOCKTON | Inland port in California, US, on the San Joaquin River; seat of the University of the Pacific |
| HOOVERDAM | A barrier across the Colorado River in the western US, on the border between Nevada and Arizona (6,3) |
| SCRANTON | Major city in Pennsylvania, US, on the Lackawanna River (8) |
| CINCINNATI | City in SW Ohio, US, on the Ohio River (10) |
| SHREVEPORT | City in northwest Louisiana, US, on the Red River |
| WACO | City in east-central Texas, US, on the Brazos River |
| OMAHA | City in Nebraska, US on the Missouri River opposite Council Bluffs, Iowa (5) |
| TULSA | City and major oil centre in Oklahoma, US on the Arkansas River (5) |
| SELMA | A city in Alabama best known for the 1960s civil rights movement (5) |
| HUNTSVILLE | The largest city in Alabama (10) |
| MASAI | Grandma's aiming to entrap a black warrior (5) |
| MONTGOMERY | State capital of Alabama, US (10) |
| EVANSVILLE | City in Indiana, US on the Ohio River home to Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden (10) |
| CLEVELAND | City in Ohio, US on the southern shore of Lake Erie (9) |
| TEXAS | The second-largest state of the US, on the Gulf of Mexico (5) |
| ELPASO | City in Texas, US, on the Rio Grande opposite Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (2,4) |
| DAY | Annual holiday in the US on the fourth Thursday of November (12,3) |
