| Largest of the lower 48 | 23 |
| It joined the Union in 1845 | 27 |
| Where to find Katy and Austin | 29 |
| Where bluebonnets bloom | 23 |
| Where Austin is capital | 23 |
| State that was once a nation | 28 |
| State that was once a country | 29 |
| State on the Rio Grande | 23 |
| Site of Jim Hogg County | 23 |
| Sam Houston was its president | 29 |
| Republic under Sam Houston | 26 |
| Republic that became a state | 28 |
| Rangers chase flies here | 24 |
| Kind of ranger or leaguer | 25 |
| Its state dish is chili | 23 |
| It has a heart, in song | 23 |
| Home of Edwards Plateau | 23 |
| Gov. Clements' state | 24 |
| George Bush's home state | 28 |
| Everything's big there | 26 |
| Bushes can be found here | 24 |
| Buddy Holly's home | 22 |
| Birth state of two presidents | 29 |
| Ann Richards's bailiwick | 28 |
| About 7% of the United States | 29 |
| 1985 Michener best seller | 25 |
| "Yellow Rose" place | 29 |
| Aggies from College Station | 27 |
| Where in the world is Paris? | 28 |
| Slow-smoked Southern grub | 25 |
| It's heard in Houston | 25 |
| Oklahoma Sooners' rival | 27 |
| Oklahoma Sooners rival | 22 |
| Big Southwestern trombones? | 27 |
| Lone Star State officer | 23 |
| Certain mounted police | 22 |
| Dallas tourists, perhaps? | 25 |
| Lone Star State duties? | 23 |
| Crude from a well, slangily | 27 |
| Austin school, informally | 25 |
| Bugs Bunny's creator | 24 |
| Gag after having fajitas? | 25 |
| Message from a smartphone | 25 |
| Alternative to graphics | 23 |
| Start-of-semester purchase | 26 |
| Send a quick message, perhaps | 29 |
| Write on a BlackBerry, maybe | 28 |
| Send a message via cell phone | 29 |
| High schooler's book | 24 |
| Communicate by cell phone | 25 |
| Write to on a cell phone | 24 |
| Word processor's content | 28 |
| Word processor's concern | 28 |
| Use your thumbs, perhaps | 24 |
| Something to castigate | 22 |
| Short passage of Scripture | 26 |
| Sermonizer's source | 23 |
| Sermon's inspiration | 24 |
| Send a quick update, in a way | 29 |
| Send a quick message to | 23 |
| Send a modern-day message | 25 |
| Send a message to, these days | 29 |
| Send a message to, in a way | 27 |
| Send a high-tech message to | 27 |
| Send a high-tech message | 24 |
| Semester-start purchase | 23 |
| Reach via cell phone, maybe | 27 |
| Preacher's reading | 22 |
| Phone-to-phone communication | 28 |
| Modern messaging medium | 23 |
| Message with an emoji, maybe | 28 |
| Message sent to a cell phone | 28 |
| It often goes with graphics | 27 |
| Do a driver's no-no | 23 |
| Contact via cell phone, maybe | 29 |
| Contact via cell phone | 22 |
| Contact by phone, in a way | 26 |
| Communicate without speaking | 28 |
| Communicate with modern-style | 29 |
| Communicate like many teens | 27 |
| Communicate by thumbing | 23 |
| Certain cell phone message | 26 |
| Cell-phone written message | 26 |
| Cell phone message, perhaps | 27 |
| Cell phone convienence | 22 |
| Be all thumbs as a writer? | 26 |
| "r u there?," e.g. | 28 |
| "How r u?," e.g. | 26 |
| "C U L8R," e.g. | 25 |
| Classic, as an example | 22 |
| Academic publishing positions | 29 |
| New school year purchases | 25 |
| Sent messages, of a sort | 24 |
| Sent messages by phone | 22 |
| Sent a cell message to | 22 |
| Contacted via BlackBerry | 24 |
| Contacted digitally, perhaps | 28 |
| Cousins of word processors | 26 |
| Today's teen, often | 23 |
| Some distracted drivers | 23 |