| BALBOA | Vasco Nunez de _, Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador who discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513 (6) |
| SHELL | You can hear the ocean in one, sometimes |
| HERNANDO | Spanish explorer and conquistador who in 1541 became the first European to cross the Mississippi River (8) |
| DESOTO | Spanish explorer and conquistador who in 1541 became the first European to cross the Mississippi River (2,4) |
| LEON | Ponce de ___ (Spanish explorer) |
| SOTO | Hernando de ___ (Spanish explorer of Florida) |
| MONGOL | Empire founded by Genghis Khan in 1206 in the Steppe of central Asia. By the late 13th century it reached from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Danube River and the shores of the Persian Gulf in t |
| MIR | (GKN) Soviet (later Russian) manned space station launched in 1986 and scuttled in the Pacific Ocean in 2001 (3) |
| HEYERDAHL | Norwegian anthropologist and explorer who voyaged around 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean in his balsa-wood boat Kon-Tiki (9) |
| FLORESSEA | Part of the Pacific Ocean in Indonesia between Celebes and the Lesser Sunda Islands |
| BANDA | The Sea is that part of the Pacific Ocean in Indonesia between Sulawesi and New Guinea (5) |
| ADMIRALTY | The -- Islands are a group in the S.W. Pacific Ocean in the Bismarck Archipelago (9) |
| CORALSEA | SW arm of the Pacific Ocean in which the Great Barrier Reef is located (5,3) |
| ROSSSEA | Large arm of the Pacific Ocean in Antarctica between Victoria Land and Edward VII Peninsula (4,3) |
| PIZARRO | Francisco ___, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Inca empire (1533) and founded Lima as the new capital of Peru (1535) (7) |
| TIKI | Kon -; balsa wood raft in which Thor Heyerdahl made his 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific Ocean in 1947 (4) |
| PUGETSOUND | Deep inlet of the Pacific Ocean in northwestern Washington State, US (5,5) |
| PUGET | Deep inlet of the Pacific Ocean in north-west Washington, US (5,5) (see 12D) |
| SOUND | Deep inlet of the Pacific Ocean in north-west Washington, US (5,5) (see 9A) |
| TOURNAMENT | Inlet of the Pacific Ocean in South Island, New Zealand, formerly called Cook's Mistake (7,3) |
