| RAGUSA | Old Italian name for the port of Dubrovnik (6) |
| FIUME | The Italian name for the port of Rijeka in Croatia (5) |
| ELIO | Lie about old Italian name (4) |
| PUGLIA | Italian name for the region forming the heel of the boot of Italy, site of Lecce, the so-called "Florence of the South" (6) |
| SCAMPI | Plural form of the Italian name for the langoustine (Nephrops norvegicus), also known as the Norwegian lobster (6) |
| TEVERE | What is the Italian name for the river that runs through Rome? (6) |
| NAPOLI | Italian name for the regional capital of Campania (6) |
| DUBLIN | John Rigby's old base can be seen from the outskirts of Dubrovnik and Berlin (6) |
| GDANSK | Around kilometre from Dublin, it's an unseen problem for the port (6) |
| GRACES | The Three ____ , collective term for the Royal Liver, the Cunard and the Port of Liverpool Buildings (6) |
| PRAWNS | Small crustaceans, an essential ingredient of a seafood paella, and also the astronomic emblem of the Port of Soller, Mallorca (6) |
| ITALIA | The Italian name for Italy (6) |
| NAPLES | Napoli is the Italian name for which seaport (6) |
| TORINO | What is the Italian name for Turin? (6) |
| GROSSE | ___ Ile and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site of Canada (St. Lawrence River quarantine station in operation for immigrants at the Port of Quebec from 1832 to 1937) |
| DRIVEN | Heading for Dubrovnik and Split, having lots of energy |
| ARGOSY | (Hist.) Large merchant ship of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) or Venice (6) |
| MERSEY | River that flows to the Irish Sea through an estuary on which the port of Liverpool stands (6) |
| RECIFE | Fierce about the port of Brazil (6) |
| ATHENS | European capital served by the port of Piraeus (6) |
