| STRAITOFMESSINA | Passage between Sicily and the toe of Italy |
| CALABRIA | Which region forms the "toe" of Italy? (8) |
| MESSINA | The Strait of ___ lies between Sicily and the Italian mainland. (7) |
| PANTELLERIA | Volcanic Italian island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and the east coast of Tunisia; ancient name, Cossyra (11) |
| IONIAN | __ Sea, section of the Mediterranean between Sicily and Greece (6) |
| IONIANSEA | Body of water between Sicily and Greece |
| MALTA | Mediterranean island between Sicily and Africa |
| LAMPEDUSA | Italian island, between Sicily and Tunisia (9) |
| SICILY | Situated just off the "toe" of Italy's "boot", the largest island in the Mediterranean (6) |
| OMAN | The toe of the Arabian Peninsula |
| TOECAP | Piece of material covering the toe of a shoe (6) |
| ITALY | It has nearly everything above the toe of Sicily! (5) |
| TYRRHENIAN | Name of a sea forming part of the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily, Sardinia and mainland Italy (10) |
| TOECAPS | Protective cover for the toe of a boot or shoe (7) |
| SICILIA | Un'isola near the "toe" of Italia |
| TELEMARK | Ski turn to which only the toe of each boot is fixed (8) |
| GIUSEPPEGARIBALDI | Italian patriot and leader of the Risorgimento who conquered Sicily and Naples for the emerging kingdom of Italy in 1860 |
| WEB | What is the membrane between the toes of a duck? (3) |
| AETNA | It is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, and it is the highest active volcano in Europe. In Titus Andronicus (act 3, scene 1), Marcus Andronicus says, "Now let hot ___ cool in Sicily, / An |
| DIONYSIUS | Greek tyrant who opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies |
