| HONIARA | Capital of the Solomon Islands, on the NW coast of the island of Guadalcanal (7) |
| GALLOWGLASS | Means to hang around periphery of Guadalcanal as mercenary |
| PAPEETE | Capital of French Polynesia, on the NW coast of the island of Tahiti (7) |
| STANLEY | Capital of the Falkland Islands, on the island of East Falkland (7) |
| JAKARTA | The capital of Indonesia, on the northwest coast of Java (7) |
| SARAWAK | State of Malaysia, on the NW coast of Borneo, whose capital is Kuching |
| BRONDBY | Municipality on the east coast of the island of Zealand, Denmark, west of Copenhagen (7) |
| PALERMO | The capital of Sicily, on the northwest coast (7) |
| TORTOLA | Chief island of the British Virgin Islands, on which the capital, Road Town, is located (7) |
| ROADTOWN | Capital of the British Virgin Islands, on the south coast of the island of Tortola (4,4) |
| SOLOMON | ____ Islands, country in the South Pacific that includes Guadalcanal (7) |
| NASSAU | The capital and chief port of the Bahamas, on the coast of the island of New Providence (6) |
| PALMA | Capital and largest city of the Balearic Islands, on the SW coast of Majorca (5) |
| CITIZEN | Townsman takes article into Channel Islands on Buddhism (7) |
| KUWAIT | Name an emirate on the NW coast of the Persian Gulf (6) |
| THINRED | WWII Guadalcanal film, The ___ Line |
| MARINES | Guadalcanal heroes |
| NEWGEORGIA | Island in the western region of the Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands (3,7) |
| SUVA | Capital city and chief port of Fiji, on the SE coast of the island of Viti Levu (4) |
| BRUNEI | Country on the North coast of the island of Borneo, surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak (6) |
