| AEGINA | Island of Greece in the Saronic Gulf south of Salamis |
| CRETE | Largest island of Greece, in the Mediterranean south-west of the Dodecanese (5) |
| ADEN | Gulf south of Yemen |
| SALERNO | Port and gulf south-east of Naples (7) |
| SALAMIS | An island in the Saronic Gulf, Greece; scene of the naval battle in 480 BC in which the Greeks defeated the Persians (7) |
| AIGINA | An island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf. |
| PIRAEUS | Largest port of Greece, lying on the Saronic Gulf near Athens (7) |
| ARCADIA | A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese (7) |
| AJAX | He is the son of Telemon (the king of Salamis) and grandson of Aeacus. In Love Labour's Lost (act 4, scene 3), Berowne says, "This love is as mad as ___: it kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep." |
| NEMEA | Ancient valley region of Argolis in the NE Peloponnese of Greece; in mythology, the home of a monstrous lion slain by Heracles (5) |
| TEUCER | Legendary founder of the ancient city of Salamis on Cyprus (6) |
| TELAMON | In Greek mythology, a king of Salamis who was father of Teucer and Ajax |
| SARONICGULF | Inlet of the Aegean Sea on the SE coast of Greece that includes the islands of Aegina, Salamis and Poros (7,4) |
| GRATER | Judge in Greece in the grip of the cheesemonger perhaps (6) |
| NAVAL | Like the Battle of Salamis |
| THASOS | Island of NE Greece in the Aegean Sea famous in ancient times for its gold mines (6) |
| GAVDOS | Southernmost island of Greece and of all of Europe, administratively a part of Crete (6) |
| EUBOEA | Second-largest island of Greece after Crete, in the western Aegean Sea (6) |
| SECRETIVE | Four in south-eastern island of Greece, giving little away (9) |
| IKARIA | Aegean Sea island of Greece known for the longevity of its people |
