| REDSNAPPER | Food fish in the Gulf of Mexico |
| BARECOD | *Food fish in the raw? |
| SHAD | Food fish in the herring family |
| LAFITTE | Jean, pirate who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the 19th century (7) |
| DJEMBE | Situated in the Gulf of Gabes off the coast of Tunisia, the largest island of North Africa, where some of the Star Wars scenes were filmed in Ajim (6) |
| OILRIG | Petronius platform in the Gulf of Mexico, e.g. |
| NORTHERS | Winter gales in the Gulf of Mexico (8) |
| FLORIDAKEYS | A chain of small islands off the coast of the South East US, dividing the Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico (7,4) |
| TAMPICO | City on the north bank of the Panuco River in E Mexico, 6 miles (10 km) from the Gulf of Mexico (7) |
| KINGKLIP | Popular food fish in South Africa, a species of cusk eel (8) |
| SOLEA | Food fish, in scientific names |
| GREETINGCOD | Saying hi to some food fish, in Boston? |
| CAMPECHE | Bay of ?, that part of the Gulf of Mexico west of the Yucatan Peninsula |
| RIOGRANDE | North American river, rising in Colorado and flowing to the Gulf of Mexico, forming the border between the US and Mexico |
| YUCATAN | A northeastern projection of Central America, lying between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east. (7) |
| SUWANNEE | US river rising in the Okefenokee Swamp on the Georgia-Florida border which flows to the Gulf of Mexico (8) |
| VERACRUZ | City and port on the Gulf of Mexico occupied by the US during the Tampico Affair of 1914 |
| TEXAS | The second-largest state of the US, on the Gulf of Mexico (5) |
| TABASCO | Estado (state) of SE Mexico bordered to the north by the Gulf of Mexico; capital, Villahermosa (7) |
| SAOTOME | Island in the Gulf of Guinea that forms part of the Democratic Republic of ... ... e Principe (3,4) |
