| 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) |
| LEOGENN | Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for his role as Petronius in Quo Vadis |
| 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) |
| OILRIG | Petronius platform in the Gulf of Mexico, e.g. |
| 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) |
| OSCAN | Member of an ancient people in southern Italy, or their language (5) |
| APPIANWAY | Ancient road which connected Rome to Brindisi in southern Italy (6,3) |
| CENAE | ____ ordinem explicui (Petronius Satyricon 92); the running order for dinner |
| ASSEM | ____ habeas, ____ valeas, - you have a penny, you're worth one, Petronius Sat. 77.6 |
| LIQUIT | She left and went away, like Discordia, Petronius, Satyricon 124 |
| IUS | Cenemus, hoc est "soup" cenae, inquit 1ac, Petronius Sat. 35 |
