| TYRRHENIAN | Name of a sea forming part of the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily, Sardinia and mainland Italy (10) |
| TYRRHENIANSEA | Hairnets yearn (anag.) - water between Sardinia and mainland Italy (10,3) |
| IONIAN | Sea between Sicily and Greece |
| CORFU | Island in the Ionian Sea forming part of a regional unit of Greece |
| TRANQUILITY | Name of a sea first visited in 1969 |
| ARAL | Name of a sea that's now several lakes (4) |
| DODECANESE | Group of islands in the Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece whose capital is Rhodes (10) |
| IONIANSEA | The part of the Mediterranean Sea between South East Italy, East Sicily and Greece (6,3) |
| CRIMEANWAR | 1853-56 conflict between Russia on one side and an alliance of Turkey, France, Sardinia and Britain on the other (7,3) |
| AEGEAN | Elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia, _ Sea (6) |
| SARGASSO | Sea forming an oval region of the western North Atlantic between the Azores and the Caribbean (8) |
| AEGEANSEA | Arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey (6,3) |
| ISRAEL | Country in the Middle East bordering the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and Lebanon (6) |
| PANTELLERIA | Volcanic Italian island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and the east coast of Tunisia; ancient name, Cossyra (11) |
| LABUAN | Island off the NW coast of Borneo in the South China Sea forming a federal territory of Malaysia; capital, Victoria (6) |
| RIVIERA | Part of the Mediterranean coastal region of SE France and NW Italy, extending from Cannes to La Spezia (7) |
| LEVANT | The _ _ _ _ _ _ , term for the eastern part of the Mediterranean with its islands and adjoining countries (6) |
| MESSINA | The Strait of ___ lies between Sicily and the Italian mainland. (7) |
| AZOV | Name of sea forming northeastern arm of Black Sea |
| ISCHIA | Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea forming the Phlegraean group along with Procida, Vivara and Nisida (6) |
