| LOSALAMOS | New Mexico town where the atomic bomb was developed (3,6) |
| TAOS | New Mexico town where Georgia O'Keeffe, Dennis Hopper, and Julia Roberts have lived (not together) |
| ENOLAGAY | Name given to the aircraft from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (5,3) |
| DOODLEBUG | How the German V-1 flying bomb was known (9) |
| HIROSHIMA | First target of the atomic bomb (9) |
| MANHATTAN | - Project, WWII programme to develop the atomic bomb (9) |
| OTERO | New Mexico county where the first atomic bomb was exploded |
| LOS | New Mexico town in which the atomic (1945) and hydrogen (1952) bombs were developed (3,6) |
| ALAMOS | New Mexico town in which the atomic (1945) and hydrogen (1952) bombs were developed (3,6) |
| NAGASAKI | Port in S.W. Japan on which the second atomic bomb was dropped in 1945 (8) |
| GALLUP | New Mexico town mentioned in the hit "Route 66" |
| SUMNER | Fort ___ (New Mexico town with a Billy the Kid museum) |
| TRUTHORCONSEQUENCES | New Mexico town NNW of Las Cruces |
| ROSWELL | New Mexico town connected with a UFO incident (7) |
| SANTAFE | New Mexico town vault with bug inside (5,2) |
| ENOLA | What was the name of the plane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945? (5,3) |
| KLAUS | Physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US (5,5) |
| FUCHS | Klaus ?, physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US |
| GAY | The atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima was dropped from this aircraft, the Enola ... |
| FATMAN | What was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki? (3,3) |
