| LOUISVILLE | Largest city in Kentucky, US |
| PADUCAH | City in Kentucky, US, at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers (7) |
| LEXINGTON | The second largest city in Kentucky (9) |
| TOKYO | City in Kentucky, also outside |
| STATURE | Importance of old city in Kentucky, say (7) |
| ERLANGER | Parisian financier (1832-1911) after whom a bank and a city in Kentucky was named (8) |
| ABELINCOLN | Born in a one-room cabin in Kentucky, this lawyer was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in 1865 (3,7 |
| SINK | Fail to swim in the lakes in Kentucky (4) |
| FORTKNOX | Site in Kentucky of the US Bullion Depository (4,4) |
| FORT | Army post in Kentucky; site of the US Bullion Depository (4,4) |
| AFROAMERICAN | A first for fellow traveller I dismiss in Kentucky: he's in a certain race there |
| BLUEGRASS | Type of American music in the country style which originated in Kentucky (9) |
| KNOX | Fort ___, Army base in Kentucky, adjacent to the US Bullion Depository (4) |
| PINKLADY | Fix stable-boy in Kentucky a cocktail (4,4) |
| CAVE | Mammoth in Kentucky, e.g. |
| LEXINGTONTON | Standard pickup truck capacity in Kentucky? |
| INKY | It's black in Kentucky |
| FINICKY | Fussy female in Kentucky captures Dick's heart (7) |
| PREEN | Groom about to visit prison in Kentucky (5) |
| GRAVY | Maybe horse in Kentucky Derby, having secured victory, bucks |
