ALASKA

• 'Northern Exposure' setting

• 'The Last Frontier'

• $7.2 million purchase

• $7.2 million purchase of 1867

• $7.2-million-dollar property

• 1867 purchase

• 1867 purchase for $7.2 million

• 1867 purchase for a little over $7 million

• 1867 United States purchase

• 1890's-1900's gold rush territory

• 1988 Michener book

• 1988 Michener epic

• 1988 Michener subject

• 49th state

• 7.2 million-dollar bargain

• A neighbor of Siberia

• About a sixth of the United States

• Adak's state

• Alcan Highway site

• Alexander Archipelago locale

• Anchorage's state

• Area code 907

• Baked ___

• Baked creation with a cool center

• Baked dessert

• Baked state?

• Bering Sea borderer

• Bering Sea state

• Big entry of 1959

• Big purchase of 1867

• British Columbia neighbor

• Cold state

• Cook Inlet locale

• Copper River's locale

• Dawson Creek to Fairbanks, ___ Highway

• Denali National Park site

• Denali's location

• Denali's state

• Dog mushing is its state sport

• Easternmost state, technically

• Eskimo's home

• Fairbanks's home

• Focus of Seward's Folly

• Geographical name that means roughly great land

• Glacier Bay locale

• Gold rush locale

• Gold Rush state

• Grizzly bear habitat

• Gulf of ___ (waters south of Anchorage)

• Home is near

• Home of many Tlingits

• Home of the Tlingit

• Home to Denali National Park

• Iditarod landscape

• Iditarod locale

• Iditarod setting

• Iditarod site

• Iditarod's state

• Into the Wild setting

• It cost $7.2 million in 1867

• It was purchased in 1867

• It was the 49th

• It's east of the Bering Strait

• It's more than twice the size of Texas

• It's often inset

• Its area code is 907

• Its flag has the Big Dipper on it

• Its flag shows the Big Dipper and the North Star

• Its motto is 'North to the Future'

• James Michener novel

• Jewel grew up there

• Jewel's home state

• Juneau is its capital

• Juneau site

• Juneau's land

• Juneau's state

• Kenai Fjords locale

• Kenai Fjords setting

• Ketchikan is there

• Kodiak locale

• Kodiak's home

• Largest peninsula in the Western Hemisphere

• Largest U.S. state in area

• Locale of Seward Peninsula

• Location of Denali National Park

• Location of Mt. McKinley

• Malamute's home

• Michener best seller

• Michener epic

• Michener novel

• Michener title

• Mount McKinley's home

• Mount McKinley's state

• Mt. Blackburn locale

• Mt. McKinley's state

• Neighbor of Russia

• Nome home

• Nome locale

• Nome's state

• North to the future is its motto

• Northern state

• Old riddle: What did Delaware? Answer: I don't know, but ___

• One end of the Alcan Highway

• Palin's place

• Panhandle site

• PART 2 OF STUMPER

• Penultimate state

• Penultimate state quarter honoree

• Pipeline place

• Place in the news, 1959

• Polar bear country

• Popular cruise destination

• Purchase of 1867

• Russian castoff

• Russian neighbor

• Sarah Palin's ___ of 2010-11 TV

• Sarah Palin's state

• Setting for part of The Simpsons Movie

• Seward's Folly

• Seward's Folly purchase

• Seward's purchase

• Site of an 1880s gold rush

• Site of the Iditarod

• Sitka site

• Sitka's state

• Skagway locale

• Skagway's state

• Snowy race setting

• State bordered by two oceans

• State celebrating its 50th anniversary in January 2009 (and a hint to the three theme entries)

• State in which Thelma Buchholdt was the U.S.'s first female Filipino-American legislator

• State purchased from the Russians

• State that originally had four time zones

• State unfortunately having a king overthrown (6)

• State where Jewel grew up

• State whose capital is Juneau

• State with glaciers

• State with the Big Dipper on its flag

• State with the most coastline

• Subject of an 1867 sale

• Subject of Seward's Folly

• Territory until 1959

• The 49th state

• The great country

• United States territory

• Upper 49th

• Valdez locale

• Wasilla home

• Wasilla's whereabouts

• What did Delaware? I don't know, but ___ (old joke)

• Where Aleuts go boating

• Where Cook Inlet is

• Where did Idaho? Wait,

• Where Juneau is

• Where Kodiak and Cordova are

• Where Nome is

• Where Nome is home

• Where the Exxon Valdez ran aground

• Where the North Slope slopes

• Where the Tanana flows

• Where the Yupik live

• Where to find McCarthy, McKinley and McGrath

• Wrangell Mountains locale

• Yukon neighbor

• The 49th state admitted to the union

• A state in northwestern North America