| GALLE | City whose main stadium offers stunning views of the Indian Ocean and a 17th century Dutch fort. (5) |
| COAST | Where an ocean and a continent meet |
| DRAMATICSETTING | One of the stunning views of the abbey - it reflects castle when the sun is going down (8,7) |
| ATOLL | Coral island and surrounding reef such as Diego Garcia (used by the US as a air base in the Indian Ocean) and Mururoa (used by the French to test nuclear weapons in the Pacific) |
| ENRAGE | Cape with stunning views of the Bay of Funday |
| NATAL | Former province of South Africa between the Indian Ocean and the Drakensberg (5) |
| VISTA | Stunning view from a lookout point |
| AUSTRALIA | Country and smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific (9) |
| CIRCLING | With 56-Across, an unwelcome sight in the ocean, and a description of the answers surrounding this puzzle's edges |
| TULIP | Flower whose bulbs were at the center of a 17th-century Dutch speculative bubble |
| BREAD | What, in a 17th Century proverb, is said to be the staff of life? (5) |
| AMISH | The US and Canadian Mennonite sect tracing its roots from a 17th-century Swiss bishop (5) |
| DOILY | Name of an old woollen material introduced by a 17th-century London draper that later transferred to an ornamental mat of lace or lace-like paper (5) |
| HAIFA | City with views of the Mediterranean and Mount Carmel |
| SIENA | Tuscan city whose main public space is the Piazza del Campo |
| GABBA | Brisbane's planned 2032 Olympics main stadium (5) |
| ELZEVIR | Which family founded a 17th century Dutch printing firm at Leyden, successfully establishing a reputation for their small editions of the classics? (7) |
| CERNEABBAS | Dorset location of a chalk figure cut into the hillside, possibly a 17th-century prank (5,5) |
| SOUTHERN | The ________ Ocean is south of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans and their tributary seas, surrounding Antarctica below 60A° S (8) |
| REMBRANDT | A 17th-century Dutch painter and etcher (9) |
