| FIFTYTWO | Roald Amundsen finished his 1911 South Pole expedition with 11 dogs. How many did he start with? (5-3) |
| BARKING | Talking of dogs, how mad is this? (7) |
| HUNDRED | How many did Colin start with? (7) |
| OATES | Laurence -; explorer who sacrificed himself in an effort to save others in Captain Scott's illfated South Pole expedition (5) |
| NINE | How many did the pixie put in the pie? (4) |
| UBU | "Sit, ___, sit. Good dog." (how episodes of FAMILY TIES always signed off) |
| ONCD | How many do their backing up |
| AGED | What many did each year! |
| SCOTT | Explorer pipped at the post by Roald Amundsen in his race to the South Pole (5) |
| NOBILE | Umberto -; designer of the airship Norge which he piloted over the North Pole in an expedition led by Roald Amundsen in 1926 (6) |
| SOUTHPOLE | The first humans to reach this extreme destination were Norwegian Roald Amundsen and his party on December 14, 1911 (5,4) |
| HELM | He starts with a tree for steering by (4) |
| JUMPER | He starts with an item of apparel (6) |
| HEATLESS | Diet after he starts with cold only (8) |
| HITS | He starts with its bestsellers (4) |
| TOBED | Samuel Pepys typically finished his diary entries with the phrase "And so __ ___". (2,3) |
| SOUTHWELL | Hugo, 2004-11 Scotland rugby union fullback who finished his club career at Wasps (9) |
| UMBERTONOBILE | Who, with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth of the US, flew over the North Pole in 1926, completing the flight from Europe to North America? (7,6) |
| NORWAY | With the capital Oslo, birth country of Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Grieg and Roald Amundsen (6) |
| NORSE | Airship in which Roald Amundsen and his crew made a crossing of the Arctic (5) |
