| ILAMA | Tropical American tree grown in southern United States having a whitish pinktinged fruit. |
| PECANS | Hickory trees of the Southern United States, having sweet deeply-grooved edible nuts (6) |
| PUSH | Stop us having a drive? (4) |
| TITI | Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers. |
| PECAN | Hickory tree of the southern US having edible nuts (5) |
| ABUDHABI | State having a friend in America and a lot of dependency |
| STEWARDESS | Female attendant in troubled state, having a garment twisted at the front |
| AFLUTTER | In nervous state, having a modest bet |
| NUMERICAL | New university student has leaderless USA having value (9) |
| PICAYUNE | Spanish-American half real coin formerly used in parts of the southern United States (8) |
| GILAMONSTER | A venomous lizard that lives in the southern United States and northern Mexico |
| OLIVE | Fruit of a tree grown in Mediterranean countries, yielding an oil used in cookery (5) |
| JIMCROW | Name given to laws in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation, named after a persona created by minstrel show performer Thomas D Rice (3,4) |
| TRAPMUSIC | *Hip-hop subgenre that originated in the Southern United States |
| REDNECK | Poor White person in the southern United States (7) |
| GUMBO | A type of soup or stew from the Southern United States, usually containing okra (5) |
| OZARKS | Heavily forested group of highlands in the southern United States (6) |
| TAMARILLO | In 1967, what locally invented name was given to the fruit of a tree grown in New Zealand since the 1890s? (9) |
| BONSAI | A dwarfed ornamental tree grown in a shallow pot (6) |
| DIAMONDBACKTERRAPIN | Species of turtle of the genus Malaclemys native to the eastern and southern United States |
