| AQABA | Gulf of -, arm of the Red Sea between the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (5) |
| SIAM | Gulf of -, arm of the South China Sea between the Malay Peninsula and Indochina (4) |
| BOTHNIA | Gulf of-, arm of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland (7) |
| SINAI | Mountainous peninsula of NE Egypt extending into the Red Sea between the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba (5) |
| NEGEV | Desert region bounded by the Sinai Peninsula and the Jordan Valley |
| GULFOFAQABA | Part of the Red Sea between the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas (4,2,5) |
| ACORN | Any one of the oak tree seeds represented on the coat of arms of the Duchess of Cambridge (5) |
| ISEEA | Desert NE of the Sinai Peninsula |
| EGYPT | The Sinai Peninsula is in this country (5) |
| POPPY | Wild flower with a species synonymous with remembering those who died during the First World War, depicted on the coat of arms of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (5) |
| ULNAR | Like part of arm of satellite, left to drop |
| AZOV | Sea of -, arm of the Black Sea fed chiefly by the River Don |
| MENAISTRAIT | Channel of the Irish Sea between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of North Wales (5,6) |
| TYRRHENIAN | The ... Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between the islands of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and Italy (10) |
| CORINTH | The Gulf of ... is an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece (7) |
| ISCHIA | Volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea between the gulfs of Gaeta and Salerno, part of the Campania region of SW Italy (6) |
| LIAODONG | Large peninsula of NE China extending southwards into the Yellow Sea between the gulf of Bo Hai and Korea Bay (8) |
| FIFE | Council area and historical county of Scotland, bordering on the North Sea between the Firths of Tay and Forth |
| NEGEVDESERT | Arid region in Israel bordering on the Sinai Peninsula: 2 wds. |
| SCYTHIA | Ancient region north of the Black Sea between the River Don and the Carpathians (7) |
