| American cheese | 15 |
| American chicken variety | 24 |
| American Chicle Co. brand | 25 |
| American choreographer | 22 |
| American choreography pioneer | 29 |
| American Civil War expert Shelby | 32 |
| American coin since 1793 | 24 |
| American colonies' capital: 1777-78 | 39 |
| American colonizer | 18 |
| American comedian Myron ____ | 28 |
| American comedy actress | 23 |
| American company whose mascot has a Cockney accent | 50 |
| American competitor | 19 |
| American competitor, as it was once known | 41 |
| American composer | 17 |
| American composer 1923- | 24 |
| American composer Charles | 25 |
| American composer Jerome | 24 |
| American composer Ned | 21 |
| American composer Rorem | 23 |
| American composer who pioneered in polytonality | 47 |
| American composer working at a bakery? | 38 |
| American composer's transport? | 34 |
| American composer/ Scottish actor | 33 |
| American composer: 1874-1954 | 28 |
| American cookbook author Rombauer | 33 |
| American coot | 13 |
| American coots | 14 |
| American counterpart of Britain's MI6 | 41 |
| American couturier | 18 |
| American craft | 14 |
| American crop | 13 |
| American Crossroads, e.g. | 25 |
| American cuckoo | 15 |
| American cuckoos | 16 |
| American Dadaist | 16 |
| American dance pioneer | 22 |
| American Dance Theater choreographer | 36 |
| American Dance Theater founder | 30 |
| American defense org. | 21 |
| American Depression, e.g. | 25 |
| American desert | 15 |
| American designer of Russian descent | 36 |
| American dessert | 16 |
| American device | 15 |
| American Dialect Society's word of the year, 2009 | 53 |
| American diarist Anais | 22 |
| American diner favorite | 23 |
| American doctor and author | 26 |
| American dogwood | 16 |
| American dogwood used in basketry | 33 |
| American dogwood: red ___ | 25 |
| American dogwoods | 17 |
| American dramatist | 18 |
| American edition of elle? | 25 |
| American editor | 15 |
| American education reformer | 27 |
| American educator | 17 |
| American educator reformer Horace | 33 |
| American electrical engineer and inventor | 41 |
| American elk | 12 |
| American emblem | 15 |
| American employee | 17 |
| American engineer and inventor | 30 |
| American enticements | 20 |
| American equivalent of Britain's MI6 | 40 |
| American equivalent of kPa | 26 |
| American espionage org. | 23 |
| American essayist | 17 |
| American everyman | 17 |
| American Expeditionary Forces commander | 39 |
| American explorer and filmmaker Johnson | 39 |
| American Express alternative | 28 |
| American Express card | 21 |
| American Express card introduced in 1987 | 40 |
| American Express card with a smart chip | 39 |
| American Express credit card | 28 |
| American Express or Kia product | 31 |
| American Express rival | 22 |
| American Express's first credit card | 40 |
| American fabulist | 17 |
| American falcon | 15 |
| American Falls locale | 21 |
| American fantasy writer David | 29 |
| American farm machinery industrialist | 37 |
| American fashion designer | 25 |
| American feline, for one | 24 |
| American felines | 16 |
| American feminist | 17 |
| American fig. | 13 |
| American film director | 22 |
| American Film Institute's "greatest male star of all time" | 72 |
| American finch | 14 |
| American fish | 13 |
| American flag | 13 |
| American flag color | 19 |
| American flag feature | 21 |
| American flag-maker Ross | 24 |
| American flags that are worn out? | 33 |
| American flier with scarlet patches | 35 |