Across
- 3. This small northwestern Missouri town isn't home to anyone quite as famous as the others, but the "town bully" whose middle name is related to some Tyrannosaurs has a book and a podcast episode about him. When that man was shot in this town in front of plenty of witnesses in broad daylight, none of the witnesses ever gave up who did it
- 4. No list of the hometowns of famous Missourians would be complete without this northeastern Missouri town famously along the Mississippi River
- 8. The hometown of a very prominent astronomer, who has an almost equally famous space telescope named after him. The telescope, which has been in service for over 31 years, is famous for taking pictures of far away nebulae
- 10. The former name of the town where a famous botanist and innovator of all things peanuts was born into slavery
- 11. This one ought to be a free-be. If I ask where one of the presidents grew up, can you figure out the town I'm referring to?
Down
- 1. The hometown of Maya Angelou, T.S. Eliot, James Gunn, and quite a few others (suck it, KC)
- 2. Not the birthplace of this figure, but the place where a famous actor who went to Mizzou who I may try to mention in each of these crossword puzzles moved to with his family which he described as "Mark Twain country, Jesse James country"
- 5. the hometown of a famous host of the CBS Evening News, commonly reported to be the "most trusted man in America"
- 6. The hometown of Don Cheadle and Paul Rudd, which, like, I do love me my Marvel movies, but it's still not quite as impressive as 1 Down
- 7. The name of a town where perhaps the most famous animator of all time, who was also a successful businessman, moved to in 1904 at the age of four
- 9. The hometown of an exemplar poet who was one of the founders and leaders of the Harlem Renaissance