| GREATER | A grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba and Hispaniola (7,8) |
| ANTILLES | A grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba and Hispaniola (7,8) |
| GREATERANTILLES | Grouping of larger islands in the Caribbean Sea that includes Cuba and Jamaica (7,8) |
| WINDWARDPASSAGE | Channel between Cuba and Hispaniola |
| WESTINDIES | Region comprising a crescentshaped group of islands in the Caribbean Sea including the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the Bahamas (4,6) |
| NEWBRITAIN | Island of the western Pacific named after a much larger island in the Atlantic |
| MONAPASSAGE | Strait between the islands of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola linking the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea (4,7) |
| BAILIWICK | Term applied to the administrative grouping of the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands (9) |
| PHYLUM | Main grouping of the animal kingdom (6) |
| AMERICA | Setter invested in first-class air travel, including Cuba and the US (7) |
| WAVELET | Little ripple of a grouping of twelve (7) |
| AVIONICS | A grouping of six icons represented electronic equipment on an aircraft? (8) |
| HALOGEN | A grouping of elements |
| BALEARICISLANDS | Archipelago of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea including Minorca and Ibiza |
| PUNCTUATIONMARK | Any of the groupings of circled letters in this puzzle |
| BAHAMAS | The _, a group of coral islands in the Caribbean, the capital of which is Nassau (7) |
| AEOLIAN | Group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, including Lipari, the _ Islands (7) |
| PARSI | A member of the larger of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent |
| CYCLADES | Group of islands in the Aegean Sea including Delos, Naxos, Mykonos and Santorini (8) |
| WHALE | Any of the larger mammals with a streamlined body and a horizontal tail, breathing through a blowhole on the head |
