| FUCHS | Sir Vivien --, leader of an expedition to cross Antarctica overland in 1957-8 (5) |
| RANULPHFIENNES | British explorer, the first to cross Antarctica on foot |
| NANSEN | Fridtjof -; humanitarian and explorer who led the first expedition to cross the Greenland ice sheet (6) |
| FIENNES | British explorer, writer and poet who was the first person to completely cross Antarctica on foot (7,7) |
| RANULPH | British explorer, writer and poet who was the first person to completely cross Antarctica on foot (7,7) |
| OATES | Captain Lawrence ---, Antarctic explorer who died in 1912 on the return leg of an expedition to the South Pole (5) |
| LEWIS | Meriwether, US explorer who, with Clark, led an expedition to explore the lands to the west of the Mississippi in the early 19c (5) |
| SCOTT | Robert Falcon -, heroic leader of an ill-fated Antarctic expedition (5) |
| PEARY | Robert ___, US Arctic explorer who led an expedition to find the North Pole in 1909 (5) |
| SCOUT | Member of an expedition sent to reconnoitre (5) |
| SHEIK | Leader of an Arab village or family (5) |
| EUCLA | Which town, now almost a ghost town with many of its buildings hidden under sand dunes, was established near the South Australian border in 1885 as a link in the Overland Telegraph? (5) |
| THANE | Leader of an olden clan |
| RAE | John, 19th Century Scottish author of Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea, in 1846 and 1847 (3) |
| DROVE | The practitioner moved in to take stock overland |
| VIVIAN | Sir ____ Fuchs led a land crossing of Antarctica in 1957-8 |
| TRAIL | Oregon or Overland |
| RAMADHIN | S ___, West Indies Test cricketer who took 7-49 against England at Birmingham in 1957 (8) |
| SKYLINES | These Nissans began life as Prince models back in 1957 (8) |
| AMUNDSEN | Captain of Norge's flight over the North Pole in 1926 and first human to lead an expedition to the South Pole (8) |
