| PANTELLERIA | Volcanic Italian island in the Mediterranean between Sicily and the east coast of Tunisia; ancient name, Cossyra (11) |
| IONIAN | __ Sea, section of the Mediterranean between Sicily and Greece (6) |
| YELLOWSEA | Shallow arm of the western Pacific between the Korean peninsula and the east coast of China; Chinese name, Hwang Hai (6,3) |
| SFAX | Port on the east coast of Tunisia (4) |
| LAMPEDUSA | Island in the Mediterranean, between Malta and Tunisia (9) |
| DJEMBE | Situated in the Gulf of Gabes off the coast of Tunisia, the largest island of North Africa, where some of the Star Wars scenes were filmed in Ajim (6) |
| MESSINA | The Strait of ___ lies between Sicily and the Italian mainland. (7) |
| STRAITOFMESSINA | Passage between Sicily and the toe of Italy |
| ISCHIA | Volcanic Italian island known for its spas |
| STROMBOLI | Volcanic Italian island (9) |
| ETNA | Volcanic Italian proggers (4) |
| CAPRI | Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the mouth of the Bay of Naples (5) |
| AETNA | It is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, and it is the highest active volcano in Europe. In Titus Andronicus (act 3, scene 1), Marcus Andronicus says, "Now let hot ___ cool in Sicily, / An |
| MALTA | Mediterranean island between Sicily and Africa |
| TYRRHENIAN | Name of a sea forming part of the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily, Sardinia and mainland Italy (10) |
| IONIANSEA | The part of the Mediterranean Sea between South East Italy, East Sicily and Greece (6,3) |
| GIUSEPPEGARIBALDI | Italian patriot and leader of the Risorgimento who conquered Sicily and Naples for the emerging kingdom of Italy in 1860 |
| MEROE | Iron-smelting centre and capital of the ancient N. E. Kingdom of Kush |
| RURALDEAN | Man of the church, of the country, and the East perhaps (5,4) |
| SARDINIA | Italian island in the Mediterranean (8) |
