Country south of Sicily

The answer

MALTA

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MALTA answer page.

Used 8 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MALTA

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• Island south of Sicily - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
• Island nation near Sicily - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Island near Sicily - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Mediterranean island nation - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Mediterranean island - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Valletta is its capital - used 22 times, most recently in 2017
• Valletta's island - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Sicily neighbor - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
• European island nation - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Mediterranean nation - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Mediterranean republic - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Where Valletta is. - used 11 times, most recently in 2002
• Gozo's neighbor - used 8 times, most recently in 1983
• Island nation south of Sicily - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Mediterranean island country - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Famous film falcon's home - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Its capital is Valletta - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Knights of ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2003
• Neighbor of Sicily - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

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