| TERCEIRA | ___ Island, home in the Azores of the city Angra do Heroismo and Lajes Field airbase (8) |
| BATAN | ___ Island, home in the Philippines of Basco Airport (5) |
| SARGASSO | The ... Sea is a calm area of the North Atlantic between the Azores and the Caribbean Sea (8) |
| LUDERITZ | Town in Namibia situated on a bay formerly known as Angra Pequena (8) |
| STANSTED | Airport in Essex, originally opened as an airbase in 1943 for military use (8) |
| CULDROSE | Royal Navy airbase on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall (8) |
| ABRASIVE | Irritating in manner of victory dividing foreign airbase (8) |
| ATLANTIC | The Azores are in this ocean (8) |
| PORTUGAL | Owner of the Azores |
| REVENGE | The ?, Alfred Tennyson poem about Sir Richard Grenville and the 1591 Battle of Flores with the Spanish fleet in the Azores |
| ISRAELI | Is close to the mad king returning from island home in the Middle East (7) |
| RHEINMAIN | German name of the metropolitan area in Hesse around the confluence of two rivers and of the former US airbase (5-4) |
| SAOMIGUEL | Island in the Azores is the largest of the group (3,6) |
| APPLE | “I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give it his son for an ____” (The Tempest) |
| SARGASSOSEA | A calm area of the North Atlantic, between the Caribbean and the Azores (8,3) |
| SEA | Part of the North Atlantic, lying between the West Indies and the Azores, notorious for its floating seaweed (8,3) |
| CONEY | ___ Island (home of the Cyclone and Wonder Wheel) |
| FLORES | Westernmost of the nine islands of the Azores, lying south of Corvo (6) |
| STATEN | ___ Island, home for part of the Gateway National Recreation Area |
| LONG | ___ Island (home of the New York Islanders NHL team) |
