| UMBRIA | Mountainous region of central Italy in the valley of the Tiber |
| CARTER | Archaeologist whose excavations in the Valley of the Kings, financed by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, led to said Egyptologist's discovery of the intact tomb of the boy-pharaoh Tutank |
| SHERPA | Ethnic group of people from the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas, the ... |
| MARCHE | Region of central Italy with the the capital Ancona (6) |
| ZOCCHI | Giuseppe ?, 18th-century Italian printmaker and painter whose works include View of the Tiber Looking Towards the Castel Sant"Angelo, with Saint Peter's in the Distance (6) |
| BIGSUR | Mountainous region of the Central Coast of California (3,3) |
| SUSANN | Surname of the Valley of the Dolls author (6) |
| MOLISE | Mountainous region of Italy whose capital is Campobasso (6) |
| SONOMA | Region known as the Valley of the Moon |
| KARNAK | Temple site near Luxor and the Valley of the Kings (6) |
| MASSIF | -- Central, mountainous region of France (6) |
| OZARKS | Mountainous region of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, etc (6) |
| MERCIA | Kingdom centred on the valley of the River Trent from approx 527-900AD whose capital was Tamworth |
| APENNINES | Mountain range of central Italy in which rivers including the Arno and Tiber have their source (9) |
| SNOWLEOPARD | A large feline of mountainous regions of Central Asia (4,7) |
| GREATBELZONI | In 1817, this collector of antiquities and explorer first set foot inside the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, where he discovered Seti's sarcophagus. He was known by many epithets, but the |
| VATICANCITY | The seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and an enclave in Rome, situated on the west bank of the Tiber River. (7,4) |
| LAZIO | Administrative region of west central Italy in which Rome is located (5) |
| PISA | City of Tuscany, west central Italy, in which Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 (4) |
| LEONINE | The --- City is a district of Rome on the right bank of the Tiber (7) |
