| ELAPS | Micrurus, the coral snake (5) |
| CLASP | Grip both ends of coral snake |
| CORALSNAKE | Venomous elapid of the genus Micrurus |
| MAMBA | Coral snake's cousin |
| PAPUA | Gulf of ___, an inlet of the Coral Sea (5) |
| ATOLL | A tax for the coral island (5) |
| LORCA | The Coral remix a Tim Buckley album (5) |
| MORAY | Cooperative hunter with the coral grouper |
| ELAPID | A venomous snake of the family that includes the cobras, coral snakes and mambas |
| ORCA | Predator took the tip from coral snakes (4) |
| AIRCRAFT | The sort of naval vessel significant in the great Pacific battles of WWII, including Pearl Harbor, Midway and the Battle of the Coral Sea; the ... carrier |
| ELAPIDAE | Family of venomous snakes that includes cobras, coral snakes and mambas (8) |
| RALPHROVER | In Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (1857), what is the name of one of the three boys shipwrecked |
| FIJI | Archipelago in the South Pacific that includes the islands of Vatuvara and Taveuni, and the coral mass Rainbow Reef (4) |
| CAPEYORK | Northernmost extremity of Australia, projecting into the Torres Strait between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea. (4,4) |
| SEAS | The Coral and the Celebes |
| BALLANTYNE | R M ___, author of adventure novels The Young Fur Traders and The Coral Island (10) |
| BALI | Mountainous Indonesian island east of Java and west of Lombok in the Coral Triangle, or "Amazon of the Oceans" (4) |
| TORRESSTRAIT | Channel between Australia and New Guinea linking the Arafura Sea with the Coral Sea |
| TORRES | -- Strait, channel linking the Arafura Sea with the Coral Sea (6) |
