| CHIOS | Greek island separated from Turkey by a strait of the same name |
| RHODES | Largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, separated from Turkey by the Strait of Marmara (6) |
| ORESUND | Bridge connecting Malm and Copenhagen over the strait of the same name where parts of a drama featur |
| MESSINA | Port in Sicily by strait of the same name (7) |
| SAMOS | Island in the Aegean Sea separated from Turkey by the Mycale Strait |
| SOLENT | The --- is a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (6) |
| BERING | Danish seafarer who discovered Alaska and a strait of the Pacific separating Russia from North America (6) |
| SUMATRA | Mountainous island in W Indonesia, in the Greater Sunda Islands, separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca |
| VANCOUVER | Island separated from the Canadian mainland by the Strait of Georgia and Queen Charlotte Sound |
| ALDERNEY | Island separated from the Cap de la Hague, France by the Race of ___ (8) |
| SKYE | Scottish island separated from the mainland by the Kyle of Lochalsh (4) |
| ANGLESEY | Island separated from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait (8) |
| SHEPPEY | Isle of ____, island separated from Kent by a channel called the Swale (7) |
| NEWGUINEA | Large island separated from Australia by the Torres Strait (3,6) |
| SKAGERRAK | Broad strait of the North Sea separating southern Norway from the NW coast of Denmark (9) |
| TROUNCE | Flog turkey by the sixteenth of a pound (7) |
| TASMANIA | Which island separated from Australia's mainland less than 14,000 years ago? (8) |
| THESOLENT | Strait of the English Channel between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (3,6) |
| BOSPORUS | The ---, a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (8) |
| BERINGSEA | Waters near the Alaska Peninsula and a strait sharing the same name |
