| SANTAMARIA | The flagship of Columbus's first expedition to the New World (5,5) |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to the South Pole in the early 1900s: 2 wds. |
| BAHAMAS | Island country, site of Columbus's first landfall in the New World (7) |
| COLUMBUS | Italian navigator and explorer who led expeditions to the New World (8) |
| MARIA | Santa ---, the flagship of Columbus on his first voyage to America in 1492 (5) |
| VICTORY | British battleship, the flagship of Nelson at Trafalgar (7) |
| MDLII | LX years after Columbus's first voyage |
| MDIV | XII years after Columbus's first voyage |
| HMSVICTORY | Flagship of Nelson's British fleet at the battle of Trafalgar (3,7) |
| SHACKLETON | Ernest ___, British explorer who commanded three expeditions to the Antarctic, during the first of which the south magnetic pole was located |
| VICTORIANA | Old curiosities cross to the New World (10) |
| GREENHITHE | Town on the River Thames in England from whence naval officer Sir John Franklin set sail on what would be a fateful 1845 expedition to the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic |
| PEARY | Robert Edwin ___, US arctic explorer regarded as the leader of the first expedition to reach the North Pole (April 6 1909) (5) |
| AMUNDSEN | Roald _, Norwegian explorer and navigator; leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole (8) |
| MAGELLAN | Which Portuguese explorer captained the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, although he died before its conclusion? (8) |
| NANSEN | Fridtjof -; humanitarian and explorer who led the first expedition to cross the Greenland ice sheet (6) |
| GODSPEED | One of the three ships on the voyage to the New World that resulted in the founding of Jamestown |
| PILGRIMS | Group that traveled to the New World to escape the perceived tyranny of the Church of England |
| MDII | Year of Columbus's last trip to the New World |
| MAYFLOWER | Springtime blossom of hawthorn; the trailing arbutus; or, the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to the New World in 1620 (9) |
