| HUNDRED | Subdivision of county or shire |
| HORSE | Cavalry collectively; a "buck" for gymnastically vaulting over; a clothes airer; an equid such as a cob, hack, hunter or shire; or, the male of said animal, as opposed to a mare (5) |
| COUNT | Foreign nobleman, equal in rank to an earl; or, his title, which is the root of a term for a comital district or shire (5) |
| COUNCIL | Name a local administrative body of a city, municipality or shire (7) |
| AVON | A former county; or, the name of any one of several rivers in England, one flowing through Bath and Bristol (4) |
| SHERIFF | Elected official who is in charge of enforcing the law in a county or town of the US (7) |
| TENN | Locale of Franklin County ... or of Aretha Franklin's birth: Abbr. |
| DECLARE | Borders of diverse county or state (7) |
| OTSEGO | County or lake of Cooperstown, N.Y. |
| ESSEX | New Jersey county or Massachusetts county |
| GALWAY | Bay, county or city of Ireland |
| KALAMAZOO | Michigan county or its county seat |
| NAPA | California city, county or river |
| BREMER | County or city in Iowa |
| BRANTLEY | Georgia county or New Mexico lake |
| WALLA | Half a Washington city, county, or river |
| LAPORTE | Indiana county or its seat |
| KILDARE | Irish county or TV doctor |
| PRATT | Kansas county or its seat |
| IONIA | Michigan county or its seat |
