| Longhorn's school, informally | 33 |
| Lone-Star state | 15 |
| Lone Star locale | 16 |
| Lone Star (or 28th) | 19 |
| Locale of three presidential libraries | 38 |
| Leaguer or ranger | 17 |
| Kind of ranger or leaguer | 25 |
| Kind of leaguer | 15 |
| Its state flower is the bluebonnet | 34 |
| Its state dish is chili | 23 |
| It has a heart, in song | 23 |
| It has 254 counties | 19 |
| Houston's state | 19 |
| Houston was once its president | 30 |
| Home of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center | 42 |
| Home of Houston | 15 |
| Home of Guadalupe Mountains National Park | 41 |
| Home of Edwards Plateau | 23 |
| Guinan | 6 |
| Gov. Clements' state | 24 |
| George Bush's home state | 28 |
| Everything's big there | 26 |
| El Paso site | 12 |
| Dallas's locale | 19 |
| Crawford's state | 20 |
| Chihuahua neighbor | 18 |
| Bushes can be found here | 24 |
| Bush's home | 15 |
| Buddy Holly's home | 22 |
| Bluebonnet state | 16 |
| Birth state of two presidents | 29 |
| Austin locale | 13 |
| Ann Richards's bailiwick | 28 |
| About 7% of the United States | 29 |
| 1985 Michener best seller | 25 |
| 1830s revolution site | 21 |
| "Yellow Rose" place | 29 |
| "The Yellow Rose of ___" | 34 |
| "The Yellow Rose of ___," 1853 song | 45 |
| "Hello, sucker!" Guinan | 33 |
| "Friendship" is its motto | 35 |
| "Friday Night Lights" state | 37 |
| ___-size (big) | 14 |
| ___ leaguer | 11 |
| ___ Hold'em (poker variant) | 31 |
| ___ Hold'em | 15 |
| Aggies from College Station | 27 |
| Lone Star State collegiate athlete | 34 |
| Where in the world is Paris? | 28 |
| Where is Paris? | 15 |
| Some slow-cooked cuisine, for short | 35 |
| Slow-smoked Southern grub | 25 |
| It's often smoked in the South | 34 |
| It's heard in Houston | 25 |
| World Series of Poker Main Event game | 37 |
| World Series of Poker game (and the theme of this puzzle) | 57 |
| Popular poker game | 18 |
| Popular game on TV | 18 |
| Activity during which the blinds are never lowered | 50 |
| ESPN telecast | 13 |
| It doesn't sell pedal steel guitars | 39 |
| Hard chance at Shea | 19 |
| Base-hit | 8 |
| Ball that falls between an infielder and an outfielder | 54 |
| Oklahoma Sooners' rival | 27 |
| Oklahoma Sooners rival | 22 |
| Big Southwestern trombones? | 27 |
| Amarillo is in it | 17 |
| Northernmost area of the Lone Star State | 40 |
| Lone Star State officer | 23 |
| Arlington pitcher? | 18 |
| Fix the marquee "A STRANGER SEX" | 42 |
| Certain mounted police | 22 |
| Baseball team made up of impostors? | 35 |
| Austin evaluator | 16 |
| Big, colloquially | 17 |
| Ferris wheel in Dallas that is the tallest in North America | 59 |
| University in San Marcos [left hand] | 36 |
| Fort Worth foreigner? | 21 |
| Dallas tourists, perhaps? | 25 |
| What helps pay the governor's salary in Austin? | 51 |
| Lone Star State duties? | 23 |
| IRS payments from Nacogdoches? | 30 |
| Oil, informally | 15 |
| Oil, slangily | 13 |
| Drink made with tequila, rum, vodka, gin, bourbon, triple sec, sweet-and-sour mix and Coke | 90 |
| Crude, slangily | 15 |
| Crude, Ã la "The Beverly Hillbillies" | 50 |
| Crude oil, informally | 21 |
| Crude from a well, slangily | 27 |
| One of the Big 12 | 17 |
| Big 12 football team led onto the field by The Masked Rider | 59 |
| Thick Southern side | 19 |
| Austin school, informally | 25 |
| Longhorns, to Aggies | 20 |
| Bugs Bunny's creator | 24 |
| Southwestern cuisine | 20 |
| San Antonio cuisine | 19 |
| Some spicy cuisine | 18 |
| Quesadillas and such | 20 |