| Hometown of the Black Keys | 26 |
| Home of the Rubber Bowl | 23 |
| Headquarters for Ohio Edison | 28 |
| Goodyear's Ohio home | 24 |
| Firestone Country Club city | 27 |
| City that tires Detroit | 23 |
| City that once tired the U.S. | 29 |
| City that may make you tired | 28 |
| City south of Cleveland | 23 |
| City on the Little Cuyahoga | 27 |
| City on the Cuyahoga River | 26 |
| City in Polymer Valley | 22 |
| Annual Soap Box Derby city | 26 |
| 'Rubber Capital' | 24 |
| City whose zip code is 44301 | 28 |
| City where A.A. was founded | 27 |
| LeBron James' birthplace | 28 |
| Chicken-king connection | 23 |
| Chicken-king connector | 22 |
| In the style of, on a menu | 26 |
| Cordon bleu's phrase | 24 |
| "Mode" lead-in | 24 |
| In the style of, on menus | 25 |
| Attributive menu phrase | 23 |
| Words before carte or mode | 26 |
| Carte or mode preceder | 22 |
| "Au" alternative | 26 |
| Words before "king" | 29 |
| Sen. Shelby's state | 23 |
| Palindromic menu phrase | 23 |
| Menu attribution words | 22 |
| It comes before the carte | 25 |
| Birmingham's state: Abbr. | 29 |
| ___ rigueur (literally) | 23 |
| ___ carte (menu phrase) | 23 |
| Words with mode or francaise | 28 |
| Words with mode or carte | 24 |
| Words with king or mode | 23 |
| Words with king or carte | 24 |
| Words with king and mode | 24 |
| State since Dec. 14, 1819 | 25 |
| State neighboring Fla. | 22 |
| Sen. Sessions's state | 25 |
| Part of some recipe titles | 26 |
| Part of a dish's name | 25 |
| Mode or carte preceders | 23 |
| Mode or carte preceder | 22 |
| Mobile phone site?: Abbr. | 25 |
| King's predecessors | 23 |
| King's introduction? | 24 |
| It's east of Miss. | 22 |
| It precedes carte or mode | 25 |
| It goes before the carte | 24 |
| In the manner of, on a menu | 27 |
| Chicken-King separator | 22 |
| Chef's recipe words | 23 |
| Chef's catchphrase | 22 |
| Bit of culinary jargon | 22 |
| ''Au'' cousin | 29 |
| ___ Tau, U.S.S.R. range | 23 |
| ___ maison (indoors): Fr. | 25 |
| ___ Dag, Turkish mountain | 25 |
| ___ carte (not prix fixe) | 25 |
| ___ broche (cooked on a spit) | 29 |
| Yellowhammer State: Abbr. | 25 |
| Words with mode or king | 23 |
| Words with carte or mode | 24 |
| Words before mode or king | 25 |
| Words before king or reine | 26 |
| Words before king or mode | 25 |
| Words before king or carte | 26 |
| Words before carte or king | 26 |
| Where the C.S.A. was formed | 27 |
| Tuskegee's locale: Abbr. | 28 |
| Tuskegee U.'s state | 23 |
| Tuskegee Inst.'s home | 25 |
| Tuscaloosa's state: Abbr. | 29 |
| Tuscaloosa's home (abbr.) | 29 |
| The Heart of Dixie: Abbr. | 25 |
| The Cotton State: Abbr. | 23 |
| The Camellia State: Abbr. | 25 |
| Talladega's state (abbr.) | 29 |
| State between Miss. and Ga. | 27 |
| St. with a red X on its flag | 28 |
| Setting of Tuskegee U. | 22 |
| Setting of Tuscaloosa Co. | 25 |
| Sen. Stewart's state | 24 |
| Sen. Denton's state | 23 |
| Selma's state, briefly | 26 |
| Recipe-title connector | 22 |
| Prepared in the manner of | 25 |
| Prefix for mode or king | 23 |
| Predecessor of mode or king | 27 |
| Precedes carte or mode | 22 |
| Phrase in French cookery | 24 |
| Phrase before carte or mode | 27 |
| Part of the Gulf Coast: Abbr. | 29 |
| Part of the Deep South: Abbr. | 29 |
| Part of many fancy dish names | 29 |
| Part of a recipe title | 22 |