| COLUMBUS | The Taino people of the Caribbean discovered this guy sailing their ocean blue in 1492 (8) |
| BARBACOA | Cooking style that originated from the Taino people |
| HAITI | Caribbean country first inhabited by the Taino |
| TAINO | An indigenous people of the Caribbean (5) |
| GUAVA | Tropical fruit whose name comes from the Taino language |
| FOUNDOUT | Discovered this could make do fun? |
| ALHAMBRA | Palace complex in southern Spain which became Ferdinand and Isabella’s royal court in 1492 |
| ISABELLA | Spanish queen who sponsored Columbus in 1492 (8) |
| SANTAMARIA | In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue; his fleet consisted of the Nina, the Pinta and this vessel (5,5) |
| TENERIFE | Columbus landed here in 1492 |
| TRIALANDERROR | At the end of summer, Alderton has an excited air about it, but this all changes by the end of September -- I discovered this by experimenting with various visiting dates (5,3,5) |
| NINA | In 1492, it sailed the ocean blue |
| PINTA | In 1492 it sailed the ocean blue |
| TITANIC | 1998 film featuring the Heart of the Ocean blue diamond necklace (7) |
| DNA | In 1944, scientists working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York discovered this chemical which |
| ASEA | Sailing the ocean blue |
| CHAMPAGNE | 'Come quickly, I am tasting the stars,' Dom Perignon is quoted as saying when he discovered this dri |
| MAUVE | Chemist William Perkin discovered this purple shade which was the first aniline dye |
| ADRA | Spanish port that was the final stronghold of the Moors, who were defeated there in 1492, ending the Moorish rule of Spain |
| ATSEA | On the ocean blue |
