| GAMA | Portuguese explorer, Vasco da _ (4) |
| DAGAMA | Portuguese explorer Vasco ___ |
| SHORT | Explorer Vasco da __ |
| PORTUGUESE | Nationality of explorer Vasco da Gama (10) |
| LISBON | Departure point for explorer Vasco da Gama |
| CODA | End of movement Vasco da Gama revealed (4) |
| CAPE | Rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa named it Cabo das Tormentas by the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 (4,2,4,4) |
| DIAZ | Bartholomew ___, 15th century Portuguese explorer (4) |
| DIAS | Bartolomeu ----, Portuguese explorer associated with the Cape of Good Hope (4) |
| EXPLORER | Vasco da Gama was a noted Portuguese one (8) |
| NOVO | "___ Mundo" (quest of some Portuguese explorers) |
| NUNEZ | Explorer Vasco __ de Balboa |
| BALBOA | Explorer Vasco NAAºAA±ez de ___ |
| GOA | Indian state, with Vasco da Gama its largest city (3) |
| POR | Vasco da Gama's homeland: Abbr. |
| INDIAN | Third largest ocean, main trade route to Far East pioneered by Vasco da Gama in 1497 (6) |
| SPICES | Aromatic products sought by explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama |
| IBO | One of the Quirimbas Islands in the Indian Ocean off northern Mozambique, on which Vasco da Gama reportedly rested in 1502 |
| MEDEL | Gary ..... , Chile, Vasco da Gama and 2013-14 Cardiff midfielder (5) |
| COUTINHO | Philippe ........, 2010-22 Brazil and Aston Villa midfielder; current Vasco da Gama loanee (8) |
