| PHUKET | Largest island of Thailand, known as 'the Pearl of the Andaman Sea' (6) |
| MUAYTHAI | National sport of Thailand, known as 'the Art of Eight Limbs' (4,4) |
| PORT | ___ Blair, the capital city of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands |
| PORTBLAIR | Capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (4,5) |
| ODESSA | Ukraine city known as the "Pearl of the Black Sea" (6) |
| PENANG | Malaysian state known as the "Pearl of the Orient", capital George Town (6) |
| UGANDA | Nation known as "The Pearl of Africa" |
| FULLER | Author whose The Worthies of England describes the counties and their native commodities including the silver of Devon, cherries of Kent and the pearls of Cumberland (6) |
| SRILANKA | Teardrop-shaped country of southern Asia known as 'the Pearl of the Indian Ocean' (3,5) |
| HAITI | Country known as the "Pearl of the Antilles" |
| MANILA | City called "the Pearl of the Orient" |
| MONROE | Earl "the Pearl" of the NBA |
| MALAYA | Andaman Sea peninsula |
| PHNOMPENH | Capital of Cambodia, once known as the "Pearl of Asia"(5,4) |
| CUBA | Which island describes itself as "The Pearl of the Antilles"? (4) |
| ISCHIA | One small Church starts in India's Andaman Island (6) |
| ISLAND | In small lock-ups, all nonconformist, dissenting leaders were held together in Andaman & Nicobar, say (6) |
| IRRAWADDY | Long river in Myanmar, flowing 1,370 miles into the Andaman Sea (9) |
| THAILAND | A kingdom in South East Asia, on the Andaman Sea (8) |
| CROATIA | Country with the capital Zagreb whose city Dubrovnik is nicknamed the "Pearl of the Adriatic" (7) |
