| North Carolina river |
| Northern diving seabird |
| Fairness |
| Australian state whose capital is Sydney: Abbr. |
| Fair" heroine |
| Uneasy state |
| Annual coll. basketball competition |
| River in Northern California |
| Blue state majority, for short |
| Home of the annual Gathering of Nations powwow, the world's largest celebration of Native American culture |
| North Carolina university |
| Roman statesman called "the Censor |
| French film festival site |
| Stirring state |
| Animated film where the main character journeys to the excavation site of a Roman emperor's corpse and learns a little something along the way? |
| Animal parasites |
| Hoosier State (Abbr.) |
| Col. in a profit-and-loss statement |
| Annual cause of losing an hr.'s sleep hidden in this puzzle's 10 longest answers |
| Northern California city |
| Estate of a feudal lord |
| First thing Iowa State cheerleaders ask for? |
| Zenith's opposite |
| Allstate subsidiary |
| Confusing statements ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| Convention site: 1864 |
| Alicia Keys "Teenage Love Affair" album |
| Composite Index source |
| Dejected statement |
| Concave's opposite |