| FRENCHPOLYNESIA | The Society Islands and the Marquesas Islands etc (6,9) |
| PAULGAUGIN | French painter, 1848-1903, who spent his final years in Tahiti and the Marquesas (4,6) |
| GAUGUIN | French artist who spent the last years of his life on the Marquesas Islands; his paintings include V |
| OMOO | Novel that begins in the Marquesas Islands |
| COLLECT | Gather Hebridean island etc. may be developed (7) |
| NEW | ___ Caledonia, which is the largest island in a French South Pacific possession that also includes the Loyalty Islands, the Belep Islands, and the Ile des Pins. |
| LAPTEV | The --- Sea is a shallow arm of the Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of Russia between the New Siberian Islands and the Taimyr Peninsula (6) |
| ATTU | Westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, and the westernmost point of Alaska (4) |
| TAHITI | The principal island of the Society Islands in the Utah itinerary |
| JERSEY | Southernmost of the Channel Islands, and the second-closest to France after Alderney (6) |
| BORABORA | Island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia used as a US military supply |
| PAPEETE | Pete and an ape found on the Society Islands. They made capital out of it (7) |
| BORA | Repeated, one of the Society Islands |
| TAHITIANS | It's a hint: a group from the Society Islands (9) |
| PUFFIN | Known as the "clown of the sea" and thus collectively as a circus, an auk found on the Farne Islands and Shetland as well as on Lundy, the island that derived its name from the Norse word for this bir |
| KIRIBATI | Independent republic in the Pacific comprising 33 islands including Banaba , the Gilbert and Phoenix Islands, and eight of the Line Islands |
| BLYTON | Author of Malory Towers and a series of novels set in and around Kirrin Cottage/ Island and the South West coast (6) |
| STEVENSON | Author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (9) |
| MARTINSCORSESE | He directed Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Departed" "Shutter Island" and "The Wolf of Wall Street": 2 wds. |
| CONAKRY | Capital and largest city of Guinea, on Tombo Island and the adjacent Kaloum Peninsula (7) |
