Across
- 3. Washington's capital city has never yet hosted an Olympic games, but you can understand why people assume that maybe it has
- 5. Montana's capital city contains within it a woman's name. It is one of several cities on this list whose name ends in a vowel; however, the vowel with which its name ends is the very first vowel, alphabetically speaking
- 7. The capital city of the state of California is the longest single-word name on this list. Also, it is a Spanish word. Also, they have an NBA team, but no teams in any other major sports. For now
- 10. Alaska's capital city is a coastal city and far more temperate than you might expect, given the frigid reputation that the rest of the state has. It contains within its letters the name of a summer month.
- 11. At five letters long, Idaho's capital city is tied for shortest in the west. However, it is also the first alphabetically
- 13. It is a very expensive city, in large part because so many goods and services have to be flown in. It is a hugely popular tourist destination. Also, every other letter in the name of Hawaii's capital city is a vowel
Down
- 1. The only capital city on this list to be named after a body of water
- 2. New Mexico's capital is tiny, elevated, and dual-worded. The second word is the shortest word on the entire list -- indeed, it is also the shortest of any city name in the country. Rather than English, this city's name is Spanish
- 4. Nevada's capital city has ten letters in length. And they are good letters! But they are not in one single word. So don't look for them to be connected
- 6. Colorado's capital. Famous for that. Also famous for having a type of omelette named after it. Sometimes called the Mile High City, because that is an accurate description of its elevation. This city is one of the few in the country to host teams in North America's four major sports leagues (no soccer yet, but they're still doing pretty good)
- 8. Wyoming is one of the biggest states in the whole entire country -- but its capital city is one of the very smallest. Of all the single-word state capitals on this list that have a "Y" in their name, this one is first alphabetically
- 9. The more famous city with this name is in Massachusetts, way all the way away on the other side of the country from Oregon, where a different city with the same name is the state capital. It begins with a curvy letter, although the word itself is pretty much short and sweet
- 12. Arizona's capital city was named after a mythical bird that rises from the ashes of its own destruction. The only thing it has in common with that myth, though, is ungodly heat