| CHICHESTER | Yachtsman who, in his vessel Gipsy Moth IV and with one stop, was the first person to sail solo round the world (10) |
| BLYTH | Paratrooper turned yachtsman who, in 1971 in the ketch British Steel, became the first person to sail solo nonstop westwards around the world (5) |
| SPHERICAL | Roun-trip helps car round one (9) |
| WHALEBOAT | Ahab and we lot adrift in his vessel? |
| BIGAMY | I'm getting by with Georgia and with one wife too many (6) |
| DESIRABLE | Side bats and with one bye denied, crowd's appealing |
| FLIP | Go nuts, and, with 1-Across, what the order of the starred answers has done |
| CHAY | --- Blyth, Scots yachtsman and first person to sail non-stop Westwards around the world (4) |
| SIRFRANCISCHICHESTER | First person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, in 1966-7 |
| LAYAMON | Poet who, in his work Brut, was the first to present the legends of King Arthur (7) |
| BYROM | Poet who, in his satire of 1725, applied the names "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" to the two rival composers Handel and Bononcini (5) |
| WARWICK | Earl who first backed the Yorkist Edward IV and then switched to put the Lancastrian Henry VI on the throne (7) |
| DAGAMA | The first person to sail from Europe to India |
| SLOCUM | Joshua, Canadian seaman and first person to sail around the world single-handedly (6) |
| TEDHEATH | Keen yachtsman who won the Sydney-Hobart yacht race in 1969, and became Britain's PM the following year (3,5) |
| LISZT | Hungarian composer and pianist who in his youth studied with Salieri in Vienna |
| MOZART | Salzburg-born musician who, in his 35 years of life, composed some 600 works including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute (6) |
| ARTHUR | Forename of a novelist who, in his 1887 work of fiction A Study in Scarlet, created the crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (6) |
| TERRELLOWENS | Former Seahawks wide receiver who, in his 2006 children's book, is "Little T" learning to share his |
| MONTYHALL | Game show legend who, in his late 80s, returned to host "Let's Make a Deal" for a week in 2010 |
