| FUCHS | Vivian -,leader of the 1955-58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition |
| ENDURANCE | Three-masted ship in which Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition |
| WEDDELLSEA | Arm of the Atlantic where Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ship Endurance were grounded by ice during his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (7,3) |
| ROBERTMITCHUM | Star of the 1955 film The Night of the Hunter (6,7) |
| SCOTIA | The ... Sea is that part of the South Atlantic Ocean named after a vessel of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04 (6) |
| BRICK | Husband of Maggie, the titular 'cat' of the 1955 Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (5) |
| STOLEHOME | What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series |
| ALAMO | Subject of the 1955 film "The Last Command" |
| STOLEN | Like home base in Game One of the 1955 World Series, courtesy of Jackie Robinson |
| BANDUNG | Indonesian city, site of the 1955 Afro-Asian Conference (7) |
| APU | Protagonist of the 1955 film "Pather Panchali" |
| SHEREENORTH | Co-star of the 1955 comedy "How to Be Very, Very Popular" |
| LORD | Author of the 1955 novel A Night to Remember |
| WALLACESTEVENS | Winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| SIRK | Douglas, director of the 1955 film All That Heaven Allows (4) |
| GRACEKELLY | Female star of the 1955 film To Catch a Thief (5,5) |
| NABOKOV | Vladimir, author of the 1955 novel Lolita (7) |
| GINSBERG | Beat Generation author of the 1955 poem Howl, Allen _ (8) |
| BULGANIN | Nikolai, Soviet prime minister 1955-58 (8) |
| MOSS | Stirling ...., 1955-58 F1 World Drivers' Championship runner-up (4) |
