Word Ladder #16 – Largest Mediterranean Islands

Have fun walking the ladder between the five largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Not in any particular order.
Word ladder rules: each word resembles the word above it, more or less.
Answers must correspond to the highlighted box.
“No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine.” – John Donne
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Island #1. Capital is Cagliari.
Sardinia
Tightly packed little fish.
Sardines
Type of cracker.
Saltines
Famous Vatican chapel.
Sistine
Three score.
Sixty
Island #2. Mount Etna.
Sicily
Toy: _____ Putty.
Silly
iPhone personality.
Siri
McEnroe: “You cannot be ______!”
Serious
McCormick or Billy Ray.
Cyrus
Island #3. Nicosia.
Cyprus
Core, mantle, _____.
Crust
Said a 4-letter word.
Cursed
Coffee grinder choice: fine or ______.
Coarse
Island #4. Napoleon’s birthplace.
Corsica
Feeling nauseated during a drive.
Carsick
With Watson, unraveled DNA.
Crick
TV series: “Dawson’s _____.”
Creek
Island #5: Minoan civilization.
Crete
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Feb 7, 2020
Sadly, it seems that more jetpunkers watch some obscure TV programmes than know who unravelled the structure of DNA.