| BARBARYCOAST | Historic name for the Mediterranean coastline of North Africa (7,5) |
| COTE | The Mediterranean coastline of France, including the French Riviera (4,5) |
| DAZUR | The Mediterranean coastline of France, including the French Riviera (4,5) |
| RIVIERA | Fashionable region along the Mediterranean coastline of France and Italy |
| ASIA | Historic name for the Anatolia region of Turkey (4) |
| MINOR | Historic name for the Anatolia region of Turkey (5) |
| RUTHENIA | Historic name for the E European region briefly called Carpatho-Ukraine (8) |
| SALADIN | Historic name for the youngster in vice (7) |
| STEIN | Chef whose culinary travels have taken him through Venice, the heart of Greece, India, markets of Phnom Penh, rural France and along many of the Mediterranean coastlines (5) |
| MARE | ___ nostrum ("our sea," the Romans' name for the Mediterranean) |
| FLOURMOTH | Common name for the Mediterranean Ephestia kuehniella, a pest species of cereal grains and other stored foods (5,4) |
| MARENOSTRUM | Ancient Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea |
| OYSTERPLANT | Another name for the Mediterranean plant salsify (6,5) |
| MEARNS | The ___, historic name for Kincardineshire (6) |
| TARTARS | Historic name for inhabitants of central and northern Asia |
| SIGNAC | Pointillist influenced by Seurat who painted while he sailed along the Mediterranean coastline i6) |
| CARAVANSERAI | Large inn enclosing a courtyard in desert regions of North Africa and Asia (12) |
| SAHARADESERT | Sandy region of North Africa (6,6) |
| DDAY | Historic name for June 6, 1944: Hyph. |
| CROMWELL | Historic name for a worm wriggling in a dungeon (8) |
