| CONTE | Prime Minister of Italy (5) |
| CRAXI | Bettino ___, prime minister of Italy from 1983-87 (5) |
| PRODI | Romano -, prime minister of Italy from 1996-98 (5) |
| MELON | Fruit; PM of Italy one has left? (5) |
| BETTINOCRAXI | Prime Minister of Italy 1983-87 (7,5) |
| ROMANOPRODI | Prime Minister of Italy 1996-98 (6,5) |
| GIULIOANDREOTTI | Politician seven times prime minister of Italy, who was the subject of the 2008 film Il Divo (6,9) |
| MARIODRAGHI | Prime minister of Italy succeeded by Giorgia Meloni in 2022 (5,6) |
| BENITO | The Prime Minister of Italy 1922-1943 (6,9) |
| MUSSOLINI | The Prime Minister of Italy 1922-1943 (6,9) |
| MORO | Prime Minister of Italy, Aldo ___ (b.1916 - d.1978) |
| GIUSEPPE | Prime minister of Italy (8) |
| BERLUSCONI | Silvio ?, prime minister of Italy from 2008-11 |
| DEGASPERI | Alcide ?, prime minister of Italy from 1945-53 |
| MELONI | Giorgia __, prime minister of Italy (6) |
| ALDOMORO | Prime minister of Italy from 1963-68 and 1974-76 (4,4) |
| ALDO | Prime minister of Italy from 1974-76 murdered by the Red Brigades in 1978 (4,4) |
| PIZZA | Word, from "pie, flatbread", for a slice of Italy or taste of Naples in the form of a disc of dough with a customisable array of toppings (5) |
| TURIN | First capital of Italy, birth place of solid chocolate and host of the 2006 Winter Olympics (it would have six letters in the Italian version of the name) (5) |
| PAPAL | And 13 The temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 until the unification of Italy in 1870 (5) |
