| SUEZCANAL | Artificial waterway in NE Egypt, constructed between 1859 and 1869, linking the Mediterranean at Port Said with the Red Sea (4,5) |
| SUEZ | Artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt constructed between 1859 and 1869, the _ Canal (4) |
| IONIANSEA | Part of the Mediterranean at the mouth of the Adriatic (6,3) |
| TIBER | River entering the Mediterranean at Ostia (5) |
| CANAL | Waterway constructed in NE Egypt from 1859 to 1869 to link the Mediterranean to the Red Sea (5) |
| ERIECANAL | Artificial waterway in New York State between the cities of Albany and Buffalo (4,5) |
| RIALTO | Oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, constructed between 1588 and 1591 (6) |
| SINAI | Mountainous peninsula of NE Egypt extending into the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba (5) |
| PANAMA | ____ Canal, artificial waterway in Central America that was completed in 1914 (6) |
| KIEL | ____ Canal, artificial waterway in northern Germany completed in 1895 (4) |
| LIBERAL | British political party founded in 1859 and dissolved in 1988 (7) |
| LITTLE | and 13ac, Two-volume Louisa May Alcott novel published in 1868 and 1869 (6,5) |
| LITTLEWOMEN | Novel by Louisa May Alcott originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 |
| MIDI | Canal du __, linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (4) |
| DROGO | Castle-style stately home in Devon, constructed between 1911 and 1930(5) |
| ZAGAZIG | City in NE Egypt |
| FALSTAFF | Fool finally abandoned artificial waterway in Wales |
| ELIOT | George ___, pen name of the author of novels including Adam Bede (1859) and Middlemarch (1871-2) (5) |
| WOMEN | see 10ac, Two-volume Louisa May Alcott novel published in 1868 and 1869 (6,5) |
| TELAVIV | Where over 4,000 Bauhaus-style buildings were constructed between 1920 and 1940, by German-jewish architect immigrants (a mix of fluid shapes and practical design) |