| NASHVILLE | State capital of Tennessee and home to the Country Music Hall of Fame (9) |
| PICNIC | Fare to go from your home to the country? (6) |
| PATSY | Cline who was the first solo female artist elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| TENNESSEE | U.S. state in which the Country Music Hall Of Fame is found (9) |
| EPIDAUROS | Ancient Greek city on the Argolid coast and home to a sanctuary that is now a Unesco World Heritage Site, named after the son of Apollo (9) |
| KNOXVILLE | Former state capital of Tennessee |
| EDINBURGH | Scottish city and home to five National Galleries of Art (9) |
| CHEROKEES | People native to Tennessee and the Carolinas |
| WARDALLEN | Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame fiddle player (b.1924 - d.1965) who composed "Maple Sugar": 2 wds. |
| MERLE | Haggard in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum |
| DOLLY | Singer and actress inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, ___ Parton |
| BROOKS | Garth, U.S. country singer/songwriter inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2012 (6) |
| RHODES | Greek island in the Aegean Sea, largest of the Dodecanese and home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (6) |
| AFRICA | Containing the world's longest river, the largest hot desert and home to the biggest land mammal, the secondlargest continent on Earth (6) |
| BISHOPSCASTLE | Shropshire town noted for its alternative community of artists, writers and craftspeople, and home to the Three Tuns, the UK's oldest brewery (7,6) |
| TROYES | Capital of France's Aube department and home to the Lacoste clothing factory |
| ROY | Acuff of the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| TUBB | Ernest of the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| REBA | Dolly inducted her into the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| ALAN | Singer Jackson who's in the Country Music Hall of Fame |
