| ITALIANATE | With the character of a boot-shaped country (10) |
| ITALIANS | Citizens of a boot-shaped country (8) |
| ITALO | Prefix for a boot-shaped land |
| ACTTHEGOAT | Behave in the character of a Capricorn? (3,3,4) |
| TOMBOY | Girl with the character of a lad (6) |
| MAIDSTONE | County town with the character of a servant? |
| ITALY | Boot-shaped country of south-central Europe, occupying a peninsula that juts deep into the Mediterranean Sea. (5) |
| FEETOFCLAY | Weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a revered person (4,2,4) |
| ROME | Capital of boot-shaped country |
| ABSOLUTELY | - Fabulous; sitcom with the characters Eddie and Patsy (10) |
| ITALIA | Boot-shaped country, to locals |
| ATODDS | "I set out to destroy socialism because I felt it was ____ with the character of the people" (Margaret Thatcher) |
| DIARY | Book associated with the character of Bridget Jones (5) |
| DELTA | The character of a Greek at the mouth of the Nile (5) |
| SRILANKA | Teardrop-shaped country of southern Asia known as 'the Pearl of the Indian Ocean' (3,5) |
| TONE | Greek-rooted "tension" in a muscle or in a violin string; a phone's ting or an email's ping; or, the character of a hue, whether muted, pale and pastel or bright, neon or even shocking (4) |
| ATEAM | Show with the character B.A. Baracus, with "The" |
| ANA | What is a collection of various materials or miscellaneous information that reflect the character of a person or place? (3) |
| TEXTURE | From "web, to weave", term for the character of a fabric, thus the consistency, feel, grain, tactile quality etc of any tangible thing (7) |
| STAIN | It can blacken the character of a boy getting out of line (5) |
