Related Clues:

• Nearly half of New England
• Katahdin is its highest peak
• Northernmost New England state
• Chief over European state
• Home state of the Decemberists
• "Remembered" battleship
• Alternatively, I must go to northern US state
• US state's valuable metal not quite exhausted
• Missouri Compromise subject
• State probably named for a French province
• Only single-syllable state name
• Thoreau's 'The ___ Woods'
• Characters in Baltimore gone to Washington's border
• Common soldiers, for example, operating in state
• State bordering only one other