| ITALIANATE | Style inspired by the country villas of Lombardy and Veneto, eg (10) |
| EMO | Fashion style inspired by a music genre |
| VIA | Veneto, e.g. |
| AMOR | Casa _, the second villa of Love Island (4) |
| MAGGIORE | Second-largest lake in Italy, in Piedmont and Lombardy and the Swiss canton of Ticino (8) |
| GARDA | Largest lake in Italy, lying between Lombardy and Venetia (5) |
| ALIENATION | Estrangement caused by the country behind a falsification (10) |
| BIRMINGHAM | Aston Villa's local rivals, the Blues (10,4) |
| MILAN | It is the capital of the region of Lombardy (Lombardia) in northern Italy. It is a leading financial centre and the most prosperous manufacturing and commercial city of Italy. In The Tempest (act 1, s |
| RESIDENCES | Villas |
| MEANIEPADS | Villas for villains? |
| COMO | Y-shaped lake in the foothills of the Rhaetian Alps of Lombardy, site of the town Bellagio on the water's edge (4) |
| MANTUA | This is a city in the region of Lombardy. Roman colonization began about 220 BCE, and the poet Virgil was born at nearby Andes in 70 BCE. In Romeo and Juliet (act 3, scene 5), Juliet says, "It is some |
| ELLA | Mark, Australian rugby union player whose brothers Glen and Gary were also capped by the country (4) |
| INDIA | Assistance given to Northern Ireland returned by the country (5) |
| CONSTERNATION | No crest put out by the country can cause such dismay (13) |
| DENMARK | Study impression left by the country (7) |
| DACHA | Daughter positioned at front of a country villa in Russia |
| ITALIAN | - garden; symmetrical style of alfresco space traditionally "green" with few flowers, such as any one of the many at the Medici Villas near Florence (7) |
| MONZA | Italian city northeast of Milan that was an ancient capital of Lombardy (5) |
