| IMPERIA | Coastal city in Liguria, Italy, northeast of Sanremo |
| GENOESE | Of a port in Liguria, Italy (7) |
| RAPALLO | Port and resort in Liguria, Italy, in which Ezra Pound and Max Beerbohm lived (7) |
| SANREMO | Port and resort in Liguria, Italy, on the slopes of the Maritime Alps |
| BERGAMO | Walled city in Italy NE of Milan (7) |
| GENOA | City and major seaport in Liguria, Italy |
| BOCELLI | Italian opera singer who won the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1994 (6,7) |
| OARSMEN | Boaters in Sanremo at sea (7) |
| LEGHORN | Novel, e.g. Hornblower, features coastal city in Italy (7) |
| LASPEZIA | Port and naval base in Liguria, Italy, on the Ligurian Sea (2,6) |
| PORTOFINO | Town in Liguria, Italy (9) |
| NEWPORT | Coastal city In Rhode Island noted for Its annual jazz festival begun In 1954 (7) |
| CHRISTI | Corpus ___, coastal city in southern Texas, named by a Spanish explorer in 1519 (7) |
| SWANSEA | Coastal city in south west Wales (7) |
| KARACHI | Coastal city in southern Pakistan (7) |
| ADAMANT | Firm as a coastal city in India is tense (7) |
| MOMBASA | Coastal city in southeastern Kenya (7) |
| TELAVIV | Coastal city in Israel (3,4) |
| PULSATE | Shifting plates around centre of Liguria move regularly in a beat (7) |
| MANTUA | City in Lombardy, Italy. northeast of Parma surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes (6) |
