| BRONX | The_, a mainland borough of New York City, separated from Manhattan by the Harlem River (5) |
| THEBRONX | New York City borough separated from Manhattan by the Harlem River (3,5) |
| VOGUE | Madonna hit inspired by the Harlem ball scene |
| LONGISLAND | Part of New York connected to Manhattan by the Brooklyn Bridge (4,6) |
| LANCASTER | City separated from Morecambe by the River Lune |
| ELPASO | Texan city separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande |
| WEARY | The ____ Blues, poem by Langston Hughes, writer in the Harlem Renaissance (5) |
| ALAIN | Author Locke of the Harlem Renaissance, the first African-American Rhodes scholar (1907) |
| TANGO | Dance from Manhattan, good |
| NELLA | ___ Larsen (1895-1964), novelist of the Harlem Renaissance (5) |
| PENINSULA | A near island extending from a mainland such as the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, the Lizard or Roseland in Cornwall, Furness in Cumbria or the Llyn or the Gower in Wales (9) |
| MANHATTAN | Borough across the Harlem River from the Bronx |
| NEALE | Zora _ ___ Hurston, writer of the Harlem Renaissance |
| DANCE | The Harlem Shake or the Dougie |
| LENOX | ___ Avenue (major center of the Harlem Renaissance) |
| BROOKLYN | Borough of New York, across the East river from Manhattan (8) |
| POLOGROUNDS | Former park near the Harlem River |
| STATEN | Island in New York Harbor which forms the Richmond borough of New York City (6) |
| ESTONIA | Country comprising a mainland and 2,222 islands in the Baltic Sea (7) |
| FORTLEE | New Jersey borough across the Hudson from Manhattan |
