| NEBRASKA | Sparsely populated state situated within the Great Plains of the USA (8) |
| AMAPA | Sparsely-populated state of northern Brazil on the border with French Guiana; capital, Macapa (5) |
| BISON | Bovine mammal native to the Great Plains of North America |
| SIOUX | First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America (5) |
| VATICAN | Papal state situated within Rome, the ... |
| PAMPAS | Great plains of Argentina |
| KALAHARI | The large basinlike plain of the interior plateau of Southern Africa. It occupies almost all of Botswana, the eastern third of Namibia, and the northernmost part of Northern Cape province in South Afr |
| AVIEMORE | Ski resort situated within the Cairngorms National Park (8) |
| COLORADO | Officer at the manor welcomes a round on the western edge of the Great Plains (8) |
| CHEYENNE | Member of an American Indian people who once lived in the Great Plains (8) |
| COMANCHE | A member of a Native American people from the Great Plains, now living in Oklahoma (8) |
| PANTHEON | Situated within Japan, the only temple (8) |
| LABRADOR | Large sparsely populated region of eastern Canada (113,640 sq miles; pop about 27,000) (8) |
| INTERIOR | It's situated within (8) |
| MONGOLIA | Sparsely-populated Asian state (8) |
| SEMIARID | Like parts of the Great Plains |
| MANITOBA | Obsession to be shortly in sparsely-populated province |
| INFLATUS | Inspiration among the Great Plains? |
| WOOLLEY | Ur, an ancient city-state situated between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, but it remained unidentified until the mid-19th century. In 1922, this archaeologis |
| UTTAR | --- Pradesh, densely populated state of North India, the capital of which is Lucknow (5) |