| ILLYRIA | Historical region of the Balkan peninsula, its frontiers once extending from the Danube to the Adriatic (7) |
| DARLING | ___ Peninsula (it's on the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island) |
| MACEDONIA | Geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula considered to include parts of six countries, including Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and parts of the former Yugoslavia |
| DALMATIA | Historical region of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Adriatic Sea (8) |
| FENNEC | A desert-dwelling fox that lives on the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas. It's mainly nocturnal; it stays in its underground burrow during the heat of the day. |
| WILDWEST | Area of the U.S. in its frontier period marked by a lack of law and order (4,4) |
| WEST | Frontier, once |
| DUNAV | The Danube, to Bulgarians |
| WIEN | Capital on the Danube, to natives |
| BLAU | Like the Danube, to Germans |
| ADRIATICSEA | Body of water lying north-east of the Italian Peninsula and west of the Balkan Peninsula (8,3) |
| ADRIATIC | Which sea lies between the eastern coast of Italy and the western coast of the Balkan Peninsula? (8) |
| THRACE | An ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula |
| MASALA | Highest peak of the Balkan Peninsula, in Bulgaria in the Rila Mountains (6) |
| ALBANIA | Country on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula (7) |
| ARNHEMLAND | A historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia (6,4) |
| BOHEMIA | The westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic (7) |
| KOSOVO | Autonomous region in the Balkan peninsula formerly a part of Yugoslavia; capital, Pristina (6) |
| MANNING | Olivia, author of The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy novel series (7) |
| DESCRIBE | Give details of banks of Danube to writer (8) |
