| American dogwoods | 17 |
| American dogwood: red ___ | 25 |
| American dogwood used in basketry | 33 |
| American dogwood | 16 |
| American doctor and author | 26 |
| American diner favorite | 23 |
| American diarist Anais | 22 |
| American Dialect Society's word of the year, 2009 | 53 |
| American device | 15 |
| American dessert | 16 |
| American designer of Russian descent | 36 |
| American desert | 15 |
| American Depression, e.g. | 25 |
| American defense org. | 21 |
| American Dance Theater founder | 30 |
| American Dance Theater choreographer | 36 |
| American dance pioneer | 22 |
| American Dadaist | 16 |
| American cuckoos | 16 |
| American cuckoo | 15 |
| American Crossroads, e.g. | 25 |
| American crop | 13 |
| American craft | 14 |
| American couturier | 18 |
| American counterpart of Britain's MI6 | 41 |
| American coots | 14 |
| American coot | 13 |
| American cookbook author Rombauer | 33 |
| American composer: 1874-1954 | 28 |
| American composer/ Scottish actor | 33 |
| American composer's transport? | 34 |
| American composer working at a bakery? | 38 |
| American composer who pioneered in polytonality | 47 |
| American composer Rorem | 23 |
| American composer Ned | 21 |
| American composer Jerome | 24 |
| American composer Charles | 25 |
| American composer 1923- | 24 |
| American composer | 17 |
| American competitor, as it was once known | 41 |
| American competitor | 19 |
| American company whose mascot has a Cockney accent | 50 |
| American comedy actress | 23 |
| American comedian Myron ____ | 28 |
| American colonizer | 18 |
| American colonies' capital: 1777-78 | 39 |
| American coin since 1793 | 24 |
| American Civil War expert Shelby | 32 |
| American choreography pioneer | 29 |
| American choreographer | 22 |
| American Chicle Co. brand | 25 |
| American chicken variety | 24 |
| American cheese | 15 |
| American charge | 15 |
| American chameleon | 18 |
| American cats | 13 |
| American cat | 12 |
| American cartoonist Thomas | 26 |
| American cartoonist | 19 |
| American carrier | 16 |
| American caricaturist | 21 |
| American cardinal | 17 |
| American capitalist John Jacob | 30 |
| American canonized in 1975 | 26 |
| American canals | 15 |
| American canal | 14 |
| American burbot | 15 |
| American buffalo | 16 |
| American Brown et al. | 21 |
| American broadcaster | 20 |
| American botanist | 17 |
| American blues legend | 21 |
| American blacksnake | 19 |
| American Birth Control League founder | 37 |
| American bike company, oddly enough | 35 |
| American bible | 14 |
| American Beauty, for one | 24 |
| American Beauty, e.g. | 21 |
| American Beauty site | 20 |
| American Beauty pest | 20 |
| American Beauty growth | 22 |
| American Beauty | 15 |
| American Beauties | 17 |
| American barman'sgin drink | 31 |
| American band from Athens | 25 |
| American Ballet ___ | 19 |
| American bacon source | 21 |
| American aviator Earhart | 24 |
| American avant-gardist | 22 |
| American avant-garde artist | 27 |
| American automaker | 18 |
| American auto pioneer | 21 |
| American author: 1909–55 | 31 |
| American author: 1891–1959 | 33 |
| American author: 1832–88 | 31 |
| American author/critic/screenwriter James | 41 |
| American author-voyager: 19th century | 37 |
| American author who published his first short story at age 30 | 61 |
| American author Seton | 21 |
| American author Mabel___ Dodge | 31 |