- ITALY
- 1982 World Cup winner
- Dante's land
- Europe's "boot"
- Boot of Europe
- Country with a boot
- Home of the Pope
- NATO country
- Po land
- Pisa place
- Where Amatis were made
- Home to Elena Ferrante
- Looks like footwear
- San Marino's surrounder
- Life Is Beautiful setting
- Boot in geography class?
- First European nation to win the World Cup
- Four-time World Cup winners
- Sardinia's country
- The world's fifth-most-visited country
- European boot
- Book country
- Land of Columbus
- Boot country
- Home of the Tiber
- San Marino surrounder
- Lake Garda's land
- Leghorn's locale
- G8 member
- Polo country
- Geographical boot
- Loren's land
- The House of Savoy oversaw its unification
- Toronto's Little ___
- European peninsula
- Member of our country club (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006)
- Apennines locale
- You may have the universe if I may have ___ (Verdi opera line)
- Where "A Farewell to Arms" opens
- Where "A Room With a View" opens
- Brindisi is on its heel
- It completely surrounds one UN member state and one UN observer state
- The Boot
- Where the Po flows
- Where to find Bologna
- Adriatic Sea country
- It's east of Monaco
- Leaning Tower's country
- Land of Marconi
- Where Fiats are fashioned
- Country south of the Alps
- Home of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
- La Dolce Vita setting
- Silvio Berlusconi's country
- 2006 World Cup winner
- Milan's land
- Boot in the Mediterranean
- It surrounds San Marino
- Po country
- Boot in history class?
- Boot-shaped country
- Country with a red, white, and green flag
- Rome's home
- Lake Como's location
- Vatican City setting
- Little ___ (Manhattan neighborhood)
- Lake Como setting
- Vesuvius setting
- Where spaghetti westerns are often produced
- Boot with a heel in the Ionian Sea
- Marco Polo's country
- Land of Gucci and Pucci
- Pavarotti's patria
- Country on the Adriatic
- Florence's land
- Its flag is red, white and green
- Slovenia neighbor
- Tuscany's here
- Adriatic land
- Sicily's country
- Eco location?
- Land of the Apennines
- One end of the Bernina Pass
- Birthplace of the Renaissance
- Mediterranean boot?
- Country with a da Vinci drawing on its one-euro coin
- Olympics host of 1956, 1960 and 2006
- Peninsular Mediterranean country
- 2006 World Cup champion
- Florence's country
- Continental boot?
- Opera's birthplace
- Volta's birthplace
- Three-time Olympics host country
- See 43-Down
- Amalfi Coast country
- Birthplace of the violin
- Winner of four FIFA World Cups
- Lombardy's land
- Setting of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels
- Center of Renaissance art
- Birthplace of espresso
- Country shaped like a boot
- Home of the Eternal City
- Land of pizzas and piazzas
- Boot-shaped land
- Polo's home
- Lira land
- Polo's homeland
- Pavarotti's homeland
- San Marino's surroundings
- Where Naples is
- Where Milan is
- Boot-shaped nation
- Where Anzio is
- Home of St. Peter's
- NATO member
- Where Venice is
- Where some Alps are
- Nation in its Second Republic
- Switzerland neighbor
- Home of the Colosseum
- Land on the Tyrrhenian Sea
- Caruso's homeland
- Livorno's land
- Bologna's land
- Pisa's country
- Lake Como's locale
- NATO charter member
- Naples' nation
- Rome's country
- Florence Nightingale's birthplace
- Land on the Adriatic
- Lombardy's locale
- World Cup powerhouse
- Original pizza place
- Major olive oil producer
- Where Romano cheese originated
- Where the Renaissance was born
- Romeo and Juliet setting
- G7 nation
- Vatican surrounder
- The original pizza place
- Land of Milan
- New York's Little ___
- Birthplace of Florence Nightingale
- Center of the Renaissance
- Country surrounding Vatican City
- Group of Seven member
- Como home
- G8 country
- Mediterranean power.
- Galileo's birthplace
- Neighbor of Slovenia
- See 56-Down
- Axis country.
- Axis partner.
- Junior partner in a desperate enterprise.
- Seat of fascism.
- Allies may invade Europe here.
- Country fearing invasion.
- European battleground from Sept. 3, 1943.
- Humbert's home.
- Paris topic.
- Where Hawthorne began The Marble Faun.
- Dante's home.
- Setting of "The Marble Faun."
- De Nicola's country.
- Togliatti's arena.
- Country.
- Quo Vadis country.
- Atlantic Pact country.
- Croce's country.
- Pinocchio's birthplace.
- President Einaudi's country.
- Toscanini's fatherland.
- Where the republic of San Marino is.
- Historic peninsula.
- Land of Andrea Doria.
- Where Rimini is.
- Gronchi's country.
- Where Leghorn is.
- Country "beyond the Alps."
- Enrico Fermi's native land.
- Where 25 Across is.
- Zellerbach's post.
- Peninsular country.
- Member of NATO.
- Where Keats died.
- Word "graved inside" of Browning's heart.
- Euratom member.
- Fanfani's country.
- Tourists' mecca.
- Where 62 Across is.
- European republic.
- Part of the grand tour.
- Segni's country.
- Segni's land.
- Cisalpine land.
- Where 14 Across is.
- Peninsula of Europe.
- Where the Apennines are.
- Where the Adige flows.
- Where the Piave flows.
- Davis Cup winner: 1976
- Leghorn's land
- Capri's neighbor.
- Saragat's country
- Signore's land
- Chianti country
- Home of espresso
- Land of Apennines
- Medit. land
- Vesuvius's country
- Common Market member
- Harold in ___
- Boot land
- Tuscany, Latium, etc.
- Verdi's country
- Whence Chianti comes
- Calabrian's land
- Austrian neighbor
- Amerigo Vespucci's homeland
- The Boot of Europe
- Common Market country
- A NATO member
- A neighbor of Switzerland
- Virgil called it Ausonia
- A neighbor of Austria
- Shelley's "Paradise of exiles"
- Where Sorrento is
- Byron and Keats lived here
- Syracuse's land
- New York's Little _____
- One of 38-Across
- Three-time World Cup winner
- Country in a grand tour
- Frommer title
- Leghorn locale
- Where Como is
- Paradise of exiles: Shelley
- Country on a continental tour
- Autostrada's place
- Little ___ (part of the Big Apple)
- Taranto's locale
- Where Rome is home
- Enchanted April setting
- Sicily's "kicker"
- Where Soave comes from
- Peninsular land
- Where Fiats are made
- *Opera ... wine ... boot
- Lire used to be spent here
- Part of a continental tour
- Rome is its capital
- Home country of "Renaissance Man" Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- Little ___
- A G8 nation
- Milan's home
- A Farewell to Arms setting
- Country with a green, white and red flag
- Land of amore
- See 2-Down
- Where Orvieto can be found
- 2006 World Cup champs
- Its calling code is +39
- An original eurozone member
- Nation with the most Unesco World Heritage Sites
- Where pasta originated
- Where the Renaissance began
- Four-time World Cup champion
- See 15-Across
- Source of many an imported boot, appropriately
- Land of the Po (not Poland)
- Where eyeglasses and espresso machines were invented
- Colosseum country
- Where 23-Down was coined
- Where the piano was invented
- Four-time FIFA World Cup winner
- Current World Cup champs
- Pasta peninsula
- Turin locale
- Rome home
- Lacuna Coil country
- Pavoratti's home
- Where Lacuna Coil drinks vino
- The world's eighth-largest economy
- Triple Alliance member
- It's "kicking" Sicily
- Erstwhile Axis of Evil member
- One of the world's trillion-dollar economies
- World Cup champ of 1934, 1938, and 1982
- 2006 Olympics host
- Nation where Amy Adams was born
- Boot-shaped European nation
- Country that includes the islands of Sicily and Sardinia
- Country that surrounds two of the world's three enclave countries
- Rita Levi-Montalcini's home country
- Home of Romeo and Juliet
- Land of the Po
- World Cup participant
- Pisa's place
- Axis power
- 3-Down's land
- Asti locale
- Lake Como locale
- European nation
- It's shaped like a boot
- Boot-shaped land mass
- Sophia Loren's birthplace
- 2006 FIFA World Cup winners
- G-8 nation
- Bologna's country
- Milan's country
- Bel Paese's country of origin
- Where Serie A soccer is played
- Country where "Luca" and "La Dolce Vita" are set
- Country where 14 billion espressos are consumed each year
- Sardinia's sovereign
- Triple Alliance country
- Home of the Sistine Chapel
- Mediterranean country
- Verona's land
- Where Florence is
- Location of 1-Across
- Member of the Axis
- Place for Po people
- Wherefrom Romeo art?
- Land of Romeo and Juliet
- The Boot country
- Soccer nation
- Boot-shaped European country
- It's all around the Vatican
- Turin is in it
- Piedmont's place
- Axis member
- Home to Florence
- Lake Como's land
- Pinocchio's homeland
- Bari's land
- Source of prosecco wine
- Birthplace of the espresso machine
- Olympic host country for 2006 and 2026
- Country where "Luca" is set
- Venice's country
- Emilia's home
- Home to Rome
- Tuscany's country
- Where to find Pisa and pizza
- Orvieto's locale
- First-ever pizza place?
- Team that defeated England in the UEFA Euro 2020 final
- Where lire are spent
- Gucci's home
- Maserati's home
- Autostrada setting
- Birthplace of this puzzle's subject
- Four-time World Cup winner
- Winner of four World Cup titles
- The heel of its boot is Apulia
- Winter Olympics host in 1956 and 2006
- Paolo Gentiloni is its prime minister
- 2026 Olympic host country
- Home of Amati and Stradivari
- One of the G7 countries
- Where panettone originated
- Casanova's home
