| HAWAII | Pacific islands annexed by the United States on July 7, 1898; statehood would follow many decades later |
| ORSO | Words that follow many estimates |
| RILES | French island annexed by kings in Angers? |
| THANKSGIVING | Annual holiday in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November (12) |
| KODIAK | Second largest island in the United States, on the south coast of Alaska (6) |
| BRACERO | A Mexican labourer who worked in the United States on farms (7) |
| LOUISIANA | The western part of this state on the Mississippi was acquired by the United States by the purchase in 1803 which included a huge area of the Midwest |
| OREGON | A state of the North West United States, on the Pacific (6) |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific used as a nuclear weapon testing site by the United States between 1946 and 1958 (6) |
| BAJACALIFORNIA | Spanish name for Lower California, the peninsula of northwestern Mexico, bounded by the United States, the Gulf of California, and the Pacific Ocean. (4,10) |
| NAFTA | The 1992 trade agreement that was replaced by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on July 1, 2020 |
| WA | A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific. |
| OR | A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific. |
| ALABAMA | A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico. |
| MASSACHUSETTS | New England state of the northeastern United States, on the Atlantic (13) |
| CHESTERALANARTHUR | Who took over the presidency of the US on the assassination of Garfield? (7,4,6) |
| PURCHASE | Louisiana _, the 1803 acquisition of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic (8) |
| ESTATE | Nudist from United States on the property (6) |
| TEXAS | The second-largest state of the US, on the Gulf of Mexico (5) |
| EXPLORER | Name for the first space satellite orbited by the United States, in 1958, and any of the largest series of uncrewed U.S. spacecraft, consisting of 55 scientific satellites launched between 1958 and 19 |
