| REDSEA | Narrow arm of the Indian Ocean that separates NE Africa from the Arabian peninsula (3,3) |
| MOZAMBIQUE | ? Channel, that part of the Indian Ocean that separates Madagascar from mainland Africa (10) |
| SYRIAN | Desert of southwestern Asia that extends northward from the Arabian Peninsula over much of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq. (6) |
| BENGAL | The Bay of --- is an arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Myanmar (6) |
| SAUDIS | People from the Arabian peninsula |
| AUGUST | Month in which most swifts return to Africa from the UK (6) |
| SINBAD | Who was the sailor hero in a story from the Arabian Nights? (6) |
| DAVISSTRAIT | Narrow arm of the northern Atlantic that separates Baffin Island from Greenland (5,6) |
| ATLANTIC | The ocean that separates Europe and Africa from the Americas. |
| ARABIANSEA | Northern region of the Indian Ocean that is part of a major trade route between India and the West ( |
| DIEGOGARCIA | Atoll in the Indian Ocean that is the largest of 60 small islands comprising the Chagos Archipelago |
| INLET | Narrow arm of the sea such as a fjord, or one leading to a bay (5) |
| NICOBAR | ___ Islands, chain in the Indian Ocean that form, with the Andaman Islands, a Union Territory of Ind |
| ZANZIBAR | Island in the Indian Ocean that joined with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania (8) |
| MADAGASCAR | Island in the Indian Ocean that was known as the Malagasy Republic from 1958-75 (10) |
| FJORD | Long narrow arm of the sea |
| LOCH | Narrow arm of the sea |
| PERSIANGULF | Shallow arm of the Indian Ocean between SW Iran and the Arabian Peninsula (7,4) |
| MOMBASA | Kenyan city, lying on the Indian Ocean, that may have been visited by the Chinese navigator, Zheng H |
| MALDIVES | Island country in the Indian Ocean that consists of very low-lying coral atolls (8) |
