| State capital near Princeton | 28 |
| State capital near Los Alamos | 29 |
| State capital named for a French fur trader | 43 |
| State capital in Lewis and Clark County | 39 |
| State capital home to the Xcel Energy Center | 44 |
| State capital from the Hebrew for "peace" | 51 |
| State capital founded in 1847, for short | 40 |
| State capital founded by William Penn | 37 |
| State capital component, often | 30 |
| State capital before Lincoln | 28 |
| State capital along the Hudson | 30 |
| State capital about 60 miles from Manhattan | 43 |
| STATE capital | 13 |
| State bordering Wash. | 21 |
| State bordering Veracruz | 24 |
| State bordering Tibet | 21 |
| State bordering Thuringia | 25 |
| State bordering the Pacific: Abbr. | 34 |
| State bordering the Pacific, informally | 39 |
| State bordering the Gulf of Mexico: Abbr. | 41 |
| State bordering Syr. | 20 |
| State bordering on Neb. | 23 |
| State bordering on Canada | 25 |
| State bordering Lower Saxony | 28 |
| State bordering eight others: Abbr. | 35 |
| State bordering Colo. | 21 |
| State bordering Chiapas | 23 |
| State bordering Canada for 45 miles | 35 |
| State bordering Canada | 22 |
| State bordering Calif. | 22 |
| State bordering British Columbia | 32 |
| State bordering Bavaria | 23 |
| State bordering Baja | 20 |
| State bordering Austria | 23 |
| State bordering Arizona | 23 |
| State bordering a panhandle | 27 |
| State bordered by the Red R. | 28 |
| State bordered by the Colorado River | 36 |
| State boldly | 12 |
| State birds of Minn. | 20 |
| State birds of Connecticut, Michigan and Wisconsin | 50 |
| State bird of the 50th | 22 |
| State bird of Minnesota | 23 |
| State bird of Minn. | 19 |
| State bird of Maryland | 22 |
| State bird of Louisiana | 23 |
| State bird of La. | 17 |
| State bird of Hawaii | 20 |
| State bird of California | 24 |
| State biggie | 12 |
| State between Wash. and Calif. | 30 |
| State between Miss. and Ga. | 27 |
| State between Minn. and Mont. | 29 |
| State below Lower Saxony | 24 |
| State auto requirement | 22 |
| State at the Four Corners Monument | 34 |
| State at the "Heart of Dixie" | 39 |
| State at a spectacle | 20 |
| State assuredly | 15 |
| State as true | 13 |
| State as one's view | 23 |
| State as fact | 13 |
| State as an opinion | 19 |
| State as an excuse | 18 |
| State as a fact | 15 |
| State animal of Utah | 20 |
| State animal of Maine | 21 |
| State anew | 10 |
| State and Vanity | 16 |
| State and univ. | 15 |
| State and trade | 15 |
| State and Market: Abbr. | 23 |
| State an idea | 13 |
| State always on standard time | 29 |
| State along the Sea of Cortez | 29 |
| State along the Rio Grande | 26 |
| State along I-10 | 16 |
| State again | 11 |
| State after having a few shots | 30 |
| State after being coldcocked (and a clue to this puzzle's theme) | 68 |
| State admitted to the union Nov. 16, 1907 | 41 |
| State admitted in 1803 | 22 |
| State admitted during the Civil War | 35 |
| State admitted after Texas | 26 |
| State adjoining the Bass Strait | 31 |
| State adjoining Ill. | 20 |
| State add-on | 12 |
| State absolutely | 16 |
| State abbr. in the Denver Post | 30 |
| State abbr. following N or S | 28 |
| State a viewpoint | 17 |
| State a view | 12 |
| State a price | 13 |
| State a point of view | 21 |
| State a new way | 15 |
| STATE (100th anniversary: 11/2/89) | 34 |
| State "Not guilty" | 28 |
| State "Not guilty!" | 29 |
| State ''Not guilty,'' e.g. | 42 |
| State ''not guilty'' | 36 |