- TEXAS
- __ leaguer (pop-fly single)
- Gulf state
- Once the largest in the union
- {/Friday Night Lights/} setting
- Michener epic
- Its economy is roughly the same as Australia's
- ___ Hold'em
- Paris home
- Friendship is its motto
- Big Bend's state
- Paris is there
- Home of some Rangers
- George W. Bush's home state
- 1984 Harry Dean Stanton film, "Paris, __"
- Dan Rather's birthplace
- Austin's place
- The Last Picture Show locale
- Sam Houston's country, once
- Where San Jacinto Day is celebrated
- Bush country?
- Where the Brazos flows
- Dubya's home state
- Sam Houston was its president
- Lone Star State
- Home of "all my ex's," in song
- Crawford's state
- Second-largest state
- State whose highest point is Guadalupe Peak
- Home of Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Republic founded in 1836
- Where to find Paris in America
- Its state dish is chili
- 1836 battle site
- Home of Big Bend National Park
- Home of Houston
- State whose motto is "Friendship"
- Home to the original Six Flags
- State home to the world's largest (you can probably just stop reading there) gingerbread house
- The Alamo's site
- Austin's state
- Larry McMurtry setting
- Its motto is "Friendship"
- State with a panhandle
- Birthplace of 35-Across
- Its state flower is the bluebonnet
- Midland's state
- Odessa's home
- 1830s revolution site
- Amarillo's home
- Birth state of two presidents
- State with a red, white and blue flag
- __ Hold 'em
- Chihuahua neighbor
- Part of UTEP
- __ Pete: hot sauce brand
- Big state
- Laredo's state
- Where to find Katy and Austin
- Word before tea and toast
- Home state of Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion
- Michener novel
- Alamo locale
- Governor Bush's state
- State with 20 area codes
- Where Waco is
- Alamo's home
- LBJ's home
- Home of the Alamo
- Amarillo's locale
- Molly Ivins' home
- Republic that became a state
- 5 Across' state
- Oklahoma neighbor
- Houston's state
- State of the Union
- Houston was once its president
- Houston's home
- State that was once a nation
- Where Austin is capital
- 28th state
- It has 254 counties
- LBJ Library's state
- Country that became a state
- The Lone Star State
- Where Odessa and Paris are
- Crawford's setting
- Where the Rangers play
- Where Irving is
- Coke R. Stevenson is its Governor.
- 265,896 sq. mi.
- Gov. Stevenson's State.
- Designating an off-shore radar tower.
- Where Ysleta is.
- Where the King Ranch is.
- Edna Ferber's "Giant."
- Scene of Edna Ferber's "Giant."
- Where "Sironia" is.
- Where Allan Shivers is Governor.
- One-twelfth of the area of U. S.
- Where Beaumont is.
- Scene of "Giant."
- Bluebonnet state.
- Rangers' habitat.
- State.
- Where the San Jacinto flows.
- ___ leaguer (fly-ball).
- Where Stonewall is.
- Gov. Connally's state.
- Where the LBJ is.
- Where Brownsville is.
- Guinan
- Kind of leaguer
- Rangers' home
- ___ leaguer
- Second largest of 50
- Michener best seller
- Subject of this puzzle
- Leaguer or ranger
- Waco's state
- ___ Ranger
- Gov. Clements' state
- Tower's territory
- Lone Star (or 28th)
- Yellow Rose place
- Kind of ranger or leaguer
- Louisiana neighbor
- Home of Wichita Falls
- The Yellow Rose of ___
- Where to find 2 Down
- The Yellow Rose of ___, 1853 song
- Where Rangers range
- Hello, sucker! Guinan
- Site of Jim Hogg County
- *See 16 Across
- Ann Richards's bailiwick
- Where to find Denton and Tyler
- Michener title
- Paris site
- Waco locale
- 1985 Michener best seller
- Site of 40-Across
- Republic of 1836
- Dallas's locale
- Home of Edwards Plateau
- It has a heart, in song
- Bushes can be found here
- Where bluebonnets bloom
- Lubbock's home
- ___ Hold'em (poker variant)
- George Bush's home state
- Home of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
- Bush's home
- Sam Houston served as its president, senator and governor
- State on the Rio Grande
- State that was once a republic
- U.S.S. ___, first battleship to become a state shrine
- Longhorn's school, informally
- Short-lived republic founded in 1836
- ___-size (big)
- Locale of three presidential libraries
- State where the Cotton Bowl is held
- Where Six Flags theme parks originated
- ___ Hold 'Em (2024 Beyoncé single)
- Where "all my ex's live," in song
- Friday Night Lights state
- Laredo locale
- Mavericks' state
- Where to find Alice
- Austin locale
- El Paso site
- With 59-Down, crude oil in slang,
- Buddy Holly's home
- Lyle Lovett's home state
- James Michener book
- State that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of oil
- Only state whose postal abbreviation contains an "X"
- Site of the Palo Duro Canyon
- State with a near-total abortion ban that went into effect in September, 2021
- Spindletop's state
- Everything's big there
- Rangers run home here
- State number 28
- Paris locale
- It joined the Union in 1845
- Lone Star locale
- Rangers chase flies here
- State that was once a country
- Amarillo's state
- Things are bigger there
- Where all my exes live
- Michener opus
- Former republic
- Home of the Austin powers
- 28th of 50
- Republic under Sam Houston
- State home to 27-Across and 4-Down
- State where Fritos originated
- State where Juneteenth originated
- Where's Irving?
- State that was a republic
- Beto O'Rourke's state
- Black Trans ___ Connection (Houston-based org.)
- Juanita Craft's state
- Beyonce's birth state
- Houston was its president
- Single star state
- U.S. state that's home to the Alamo
- State where South by Southwest takes place
- About 7% of the United States
- Garland setting
- 1985 Michener novel
- Big Bend National Park setting
- San Marcos's state
- Setting of three presidential libraries
- It became a state in 1845
- Republic from 1836 to 1846
- State since 1845
