| SATYRICON | Ancient Roman novel by Petronius Arbiter, about licentious adventures in southern Italy |
| SAVELOY | Speak about licentious love of spicy sausage (7) |
| ANIMATOR | E.g., Aardman altered it, a Roman novel (8) |
| MANORHOUSE | Roman novel in 1 down - for the most part accommodating members of the establishment perhaps in the country (5,5) |
| PALERMO | Regional capital in southern Italy (pop about 650,000), founded in 734 BC (7) |
| NAPOLI | Regional capital in southern Italy (pop about 3 million), founded in 470 BC (6) |
| NAPLES | Port in southern Italy damaged by an earthquake in 1980 (6) |
| AVERNUS | In Roman mythology, the entrance to the underworld, named after a lake in southern Italy (7) |
| SICILY | It is an island in southern Italy. Palermo became the capital of the kingdom that existed here. In Antony and Cleopatra (act 3, scene 6), Octavius Caesar says, "Caesar, and that having in ___ / Sextus |
| CAPRI | An island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy. |
| BARI | Port city and regiona lcapital in southern Italy (pop about 320,000) (4) |
| SCAMPI | Crustaceans found in tents in southern Italy initially (6) |
| LAO | River in southern Italy is joined by the Argentino near Orsomarso and flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea |
| TIPTOE | Skirt around uplifting place for the musicians in southern Italy perhaps (6) |
| CARBONARI | Secret political societies which originated in southern Italy during the Napoleonic Wars (9) |
| AMALFI | Port and resort south-east of Naples in southern Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno (6) |
| MATERA | Hilltop city in southern Italy noted for its complex of mountain cave dwellings (6) |
| LECCE | Historic city in southern Italy, nicknamed the 'Florence of the South' (5) |
| ZITI | Traditional wedding dish in southern Italy, hence its literal translation ("brides") |
| CASERTA | Traces a different town in southern Italy (7) |
