Possible Clues:

• US state
• State where man's hip replaced
• State Sport: skiing
• *The Granite State (see letters 3 to 6)
• US state, one of the original 13 colonies...
• The Granite State
• State London borough has empty properties to rent
• Hiram's nephew worked somewhere in America
• Primary state
• Holder of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary