| SALINE | It's salty both in this state and the Nile (6) |
| RIVERS | The Danube and the Nile, etc. |
| DELTAS | The Mississippi and the Nile have them |
| STATEBORDERS | What the answers to three "pair" clues share, both in this grid and in reality |
| MIXEDBLESSING | Good and bad both in this? It may suggest glibness |
| ALPHABETICAL | Abbess and abbot are both in this order |
| ENLIGHTEN | Goshen evacuated and the Nile laid waste to give spiritual insight (9) |
| POPART | Movement that developed both in the US and Britain in the 1950s, spearheaded by Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton etc (3,3) |
| STOPGO | Lights for both in deliberate expansion and contraction policy (4-2) |
| SEAAIR | It's salty |
| JOHNGOODMAN | Atomic Blonde, Flight, Patriots Day, The Flintstones, Captive State and The Big Lebowski are films in which this US actor, who played the role of Dan Conner in the TV series Roseanne, starred (4,7) |
| LOSDOS | Both, in Spanish |
| IDAHO | US Gem State bordered by the Treasure State and the Silver State (5) |
| ARKLAHOMA | Area at the border of the Natural State and the Sooner State |
| KENNESSEE | Area at the border of the Bluegrass State and the Volunteer State |
| TAHOE | Lake between the Silver State and the Golden State |
| BIRD | The great skua, or bonxie, is the only ____ that breeds both in the Arctic and in the Antarctic (4) |
| IOTA | What I owe to this state and that state (4) |
| IOWA | What I owe to this state and that state |
| NAIPAUL | Awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001, a Trinidad-born Oxford-educated novelist who wrote A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
