| SPACEJUNK | Debris around the world? |
| BRIDESMAID | With debris around, Mother and I had someone holding up train (10) |
| EARHART | Described in The Sound of Wings, the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic who later disappeared attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world (7) |
| VERNE | Science-fiction pioneer whose novels include Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days (5) |
| RAPPERSDELIGHT | 1979 single by The Sugarhill Gang generally considered to be the song that first popularised hip hop in the United States and around the world |
| NIVEN | David -; actor in the 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days who wrote the bestselling memoir The Moon's a Balloon (5) |
| HEARD | World Party "Drive the car around the world, until you get ___" |
| ADAIR | American oil field firefighter who put out spectacular, and disastrous, fires around the world from the 60s to the 90s; 'Red' ... |
| CHICHESTER | Cathedral city in West Sussex; or, the Gipsy Moth IV yachtsman who, at the age of 65, sailed solo around the world in less than a year with one stop (10) |
| DOMINOTHEORY | Notion used by successive US administrations during the Cold War to justify the need for American intervention around the world (6,6) |
| AMAZING | Teams of two travel around the world in the reality competition show, The ___ Race (7) |
| 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) |
| ORBITAL | It is the way around the world (7) |
| JULES | and 20 French author of the novel Around the World in Eighty Days (5,5) |
| PENNYFARTHING | In 1885 Thomas Stevens became the first person to ride around the world - and he was using this kind |
| GLOBAL | See the ball go spinning around the world (6) |
| RICHMOND | With 55 namesakes around the world, which is the most copied British placename? (8) |
| PHILEASFOGG | Central character in the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days (7,4) |
| FOGG | Phileas, central character in the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days (4) |
| MEANTIME | Greenwich - -; measure of Earth's rotation adopted in 1884 as the reference period for clocks around the world (4,4) |
