| MAINLAND | Most of Italy, to 14-Down residents |
| VITAL | Figure most of Italy to be full of life (5) |
| CHIANTI | Drink getting leader of Italy to participate in song at start of international |
| ELBA | Third- largest island of Italy, to which Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled from 1814 to 1815 (4) |
| ROMA | Capital of Italy, to natives |
| TENABLE | Part of Italy to catch rising game show (7) |
| TORREDIPISA | Leaning attraction of Italy, to locals |
| SICILIA | Island off the tip of Italy, to Italians |
| ITALIC | Most of Italy, I see, appears to be sloping! (6) |
| CAPITAL | Rome, for instance, do better than most of Italy (7) |
| DIGITALIS | Most of Italy is following search for drug supplier (9) |
| VOLATILE | Flighty love found in most of Italy (8) |
| TUITIONAL | Like teaching spun out in most of Italy |
| TAIL | Thereby hangs most of Italy |
| RABBIT | Watership Down resident? (6) |
| AENEAS | Trojan prince who sailed to Italy to escape the sack of Troy (6) |
| TIVOLI | Town in Lazio, Italy, to the east of Rome containing the remains of Hadrian's villa |
| UNALIKE | Different girl, one in Italy, to approve of (7) |
| SHUFTI | Look to Italy to embrace feminine (6) |
| BERGAMO | Walled city in Lombardy, Italy to the northeast of Milan |