| DARDANELLES | The strait which lies between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara, known as the Hellespont in ancient times (11) |
| LYSANDER | Commander of the Spartan fleet that defeated the Athenians in the Hellespont in 405 BC (8) |
| TORRES | Strait which lies between Australia and New Guinea (6) |
| MENAIBRIDGE | Town in Anglesey overlooking the strait which separates the island from north Wales |
| INFRARED | ___ radiation, which lies between the visible and microwave regions of the spectrum (8) |
| STRAND | The part of a shore which lies between the tidemarks (6) |
| KITCHEN | Room which lies between the ballroom and dining room on a Cluedo board (7) |
| BOSPORUS | The ---, a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (8) |
| BOSPHORUS | Connection between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara |
| TEKIRDAG | City in Turkey on the northern coast of the Sea of Marmara |
| CRIMEA | Peninsula and autonomous region in the Ukraine between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov |
| BYZANTIUM | Ancient city on the Sea of Marmara (9) |
| CRIMEAN | Native of a peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov (7) |
| TURKISHBATHS | Steamers on the Sea of Marmara? (7,5) |
| RHODES | Largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, separated from Turkey by the Strait of Marmara (6) |
| UKRAINE | A state in East Europe on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov (7) |
| SEAS | The Aegean and the Caribbean, for example |
| TSUSHIMA | Japanese island in the Korea Strait which forms part of the Nagasaki Prefecture (8) |
| REDSEA | Seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, which lies between Africa and Asia (3,3) |
| MISHIMA | Pen name of the Japanese author who wrote Forbidden Colours and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy; a nationalist who committed seppuku in 1970 (7) |
