| GREATERANTILLES | Grouping of larger islands in the Caribbean Sea that includes Cuba and Jamaica (7,8) |
| GREATER | A grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba and Hispaniola (7,8) |
| ANTILLES | A grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba and Hispaniola (7,8) |
| WINDWARD | ____ Islands, group in the Caribbean Sea that includes Saint Lucia (8) |
| NEWBRITAIN | Island of the western Pacific named after a much larger island in the Atlantic |
| BUCKISLAND | ___ Reef in the Caribbean Sea that was made an official U.S. National Monument in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy: 2 wds. |
| CARIBBEANSEA | Body of water that includes the islands of Cuba and Jamaica (9,3) |
| PUNCTUATIONMARK | Any of the groupings of circled letters in this puzzle |
| TIPOFTHEICEBERG | Work before tight epic is small part of larger problem? (3,2,3,7) |
| LEVY | Whose Fruit of the Lemon (1999) is set in England and Jamaica in the Thatcher era and explores Black Jamaican Britons and their struggle with the larger society? (4) |
| WESTINDIES | Region comprising a crescentshaped group of islands in the Caribbean Sea including the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the Bahamas (4,6) |
| BAHAMAS | The _, a group of coral islands in the Caribbean, the capital of which is Nassau (7) |
| ILLYRIA | Ancient region on the Adriatic Sea that includes parts of present-day Montenegro, Albania and Croati |
| FALSTER | Danish island in the Baltic Sea that includes the country's southernmost point, Gedser Odde (7) |
| SPORADES | Greek archipelago in the Aegean Sea that includes Skiathos and Skyros (8) |
| MAGHREB | A region of northwest Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea that includes Morocco (7) |
| STJOHN | One of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean (2,4) |
| MONTSERRAT | Volcanic island of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean whose de jure capital is Plymouth (10) |
| ANGUILLA | Most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean (8) |
| BAILIWICK | Term applied to the administrative grouping of the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands (9) |
