Name US states

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Across
  1. 1. Named after the Colorado River, which in Spanish means "colored red," referring to the river's muddy waters.
  2. 5. Derived from the Caddo word "taysha," meaning "friends" or "allies."
  3. 6. Named after a fictional island in a 16th-century Spanish novel, "Las Sergas de Esplandián," by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.
  4. 9. Derived from the Spanish word "montaña," meaning "mountain."
  5. 11. Named after King Louis XIV of France by the explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, when he claimed the territory for France.
  6. 12. Named after the largest island in the state, likely derived from the Polynesian word "Hawaiki," which is believed to be the traditional homeland of the Polynesian people.
Down
  1. 2. The origin is uncertain, but it may have been derived from the French word "ouragan," meaning "hurricane," or from the Spanish word "orejón," meaning "big-eared."
  2. 3. Named after Lake Michigan, which is derived from the Ojibwa (Chippewa) word "mishigami," meaning "large lake."
  3. 4. Derived from the Spanish name "Arizonac," which was used in a silver mine in Mexico. It's believed to come from the Basque phrase "haritz ona," meaning "good oak."
  4. 7. Derived from the Aleut word "alaxsxaq," meaning "the mainland" or "object toward which the action of the sea is directed."
  5. 8. Named by Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in reference to the Easter season, "Pascua Florida" meaning "Flowery Easter."
  6. 10. York: Named after the Duke of York (later King James II of England) by the English, who captured it from the Dutch.