| KUWAIT | State on the coast of the Persian Gulf (6) |
| CARTHAGE | Ancient city state on the coast of North Africa founded by Phoenician traders |
| MONGOL | Empire founded by Genghis Khan in 1206 in the Steppe of central Asia. By the late 13th century it reached from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Danube River and the shores of the Persian Gulf in t |
| NASSAU | The capital and chief port of the Bahamas, on the coast of the island of New Providence (6) |
| DOHA | Capital city located on the coast of the Persian Gulf (4) |
| HORMUZ | Island at the mouth of the Persian Gulf |
| DANANG | The fifth largest city in Vietnam, on the coast of the South China Sea, at the opening end of the Han River |
| KUWAITI | One from a state on the north-west coast of the Persian Gulf |
| IRVINE | New town on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire |
| KUWAITIS | People from a state on north-west coast of the Persian Gulf (8) |
| QATAR | Country occupying a peninsula on the west coast of the Persian Gulf (5) |
| OLDMAN | - of Ho ,450ft rock stack of the coast of the Scottish Orkneys Islands (3, 3) |
| ESTHER | Book of the Old Testament named after the queen of the Persian king Xerxes (6) |
| OMAN | Country at the eastern corner of the Arabian peninsula, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf (4) |
| BAHRAINI | Resident of one of the Persian Gulf States |
| FLORIDAKEYS | A chain of small islands off the coast of the South East US, dividing the Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico (7,4) |
| GHANA | Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, this country achieved independence in 1957 under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. |
| IRAN | One of the Persian Gulf States |
| NEEDLES | The ___, group of chalk stacks in the English Channel off the coast of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| BLUE | - Grotto; natural sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri that was the sacred sanctuary of Tiberius (4) |
