| 49th state | 10 |
| 'Seward's Folly' | 28 |
| Where the Exxon Valdez ran aground | 34 |
| Subject of an 1867 sale | 23 |
| Nome's home | 15 |
| Neighbor of Russia | 18 |
| Michener best seller | 20 |
| "Into the Wild" setting | 33 |
| 'The Last Frontier' | 27 |
| Where the Tanana flows | 22 |
| Where Jewel is from | 19 |
| Site of the Iditarod | 20 |
| Seward's purchase | 21 |
| Russian neighbor | 16 |
| Purchase of 1867 | 16 |
| Popular cruise destination | 26 |
| Panhandle state | 15 |
| Panhandle site | 14 |
| Palin's bailiwick | 21 |
| Mount McKinley locale | 21 |
| Kodiak's home | 17 |
| Kenai Fjords locale | 19 |
| Juneau is its capital | 21 |
| Its motto is "North to the future" | 44 |
| It was purchased in 1867 | 24 |
| Iditarod locale | 15 |
| Gold Rush state | 15 |
| Eskimo's home | 17 |
| Biggest state | 13 |
| Bering Sea state | 16 |
| 7.2-million-dollar bargain | 26 |
| 1867 United States purchase | 27 |
| 1867 purchase for a little over $7 million | 42 |
| $7.2 million purchase of 1867 | 29 |
| "Seward's Folly" purchase | 39 |
| "Northern Exposure" setting | 37 |
| Yukon's______ Highway | 25 |
| Yukon neighbour | 15 |
| Yukon neighbor | 14 |
| Where to find McCarthy, McKinley and McGrath | 44 |
| Where the North Slope slopes | 28 |
| Where Sarah Palin was governor | 30 |
| Where Nome is home | 18 |
| Where Nome is | 13 |
| Where Kodiak and Cordova are | 28 |
| Where Cook Inlet is | 19 |
| Wasilla's state | 19 |
| U.S. purchase of 1867 | 21 |
| The Last Frontier state | 23 |
| The Big Dipper appears on its flag | 34 |
| Subject of Seward's Folly | 29 |
| State with the most coastline | 29 |
| State with the Big Dipper on its flag | 37 |
| State that originally had four time zones | 41 |
| State sometimes baked? | 22 |
| State near Russia | 17 |
| State celebrating its 50th anniversary in January 2009 (and a hint to the three theme entries) | 94 |
| Sourdough's habitat | 23 |
| Snowy race setting | 18 |
| Skagway locale | 14 |
| Sitka's state | 17 |
| Sitka site | 10 |
| Sitka setting | 13 |
| Site of a 1989 oil spill | 24 |
| Seward's coup | 17 |
| Seward's buy | 16 |
| Setting for the documentary "Grizzly Man" | 51 |
| Setting for part of "The Simpsons Movie" | 50 |
| Sarah Palin's state | 23 |
| Russian castoff | 15 |
| Prudhoe Bay location | 20 |
| Pipeline place | 14 |
| Penultimate state quarter honoree | 33 |
| Penultimate state | 17 |
| Palin's place | 17 |
| Palin-drome? | 12 |
| Palin country | 13 |
| Only US state that can be typed on one row of the QWERTY keyboard | 65 |
| One end of the Alcan Highway | 28 |
| Old riddle: "What did Delaware?" Answer: "I don't know, but ___" | 88 |
| Northern state | 14 |
| Nome's state | 16 |
| Nome site | 9 |
| No. 49 of 50 | 12 |
| No. 49 | 6 |
| Neighbor of Yukon | 17 |
| Mount McKinley's state | 26 |
| Mount McKinley's home | 25 |
| Location of Naknek Lake | 23 |
| Largest state | 13 |
| Largest peninsula in the Western Hemisphere | 43 |
| Largest of 50 | 13 |
| Kodiak locale | 13 |
| King crab's home | 20 |
| Kenai Fjords setting | 20 |
| Juneau's state | 18 |
| Juneau's home | 17 |
| Its flag shows the Big Dipper and the North Star | 48 |
| Its flag has the Big Dipper on it | 33 |
| Its area code is 907 | 20 |