| SANTACATALINA | Island off the coast of the US state of California |
| MINERVA | Roman goddess of wisdom who appears on the Great Seal of the US state of California |
| SACRAMENTO | The capital city of the US state of California (10) |
| CHESAPEAKEBAY | The largest inlet of the Atlantic in the coast of the US (10,3) |
| SANDIEGO | The second-largest city in the US state of California (3,5) |
| 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) |
| NEEDLES | The ___, group of chalk stacks in the English Channel off the coast of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| NASSAU | The capital and chief port of the Bahamas, on the coast of the island of New Providence (6) |
| SEABASS | Food and sport fish such as the Black ------ , Centropristes striatus, of the Atlantic coast of the US (3,4) |
| ALCATRAZ | Island in San Francisco Bay, site of the first lighthouse on the wt coast of the USA (8) |
| BLUE | - Grotto; natural sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri that was the sacred sanctuary of Tiberius (4) |
| DANANG | The fifth largest city in Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea, at the opening end of the Han River |
| KERMADEC | Arc of islands in the South Pacific off the coast of the North Island (8) |
| WRANGEL | -- Island in the Arctic Ocean lies off the coast of the extreme N.E. of Russia (7) |
| GULFSTREAM | A warm ocean current flowing north-eastwards off the Atlantic coast of the US (4,6) |
| POTOMAC | River on the east coast of the US (7) |
| LAX | Busiest airport on the West Coast of the US for short |
| BERMUDATRIANGLE | Seemingly mysterious sea area off the east coast of the USA (7,8) |
| LOSANGELES | The largest city in the U.S. state of California (3,7) |
| GHANA | Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, this country achieved independence in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. |
