| BALLANTYNE | R M -, author of adventure novels The Young Fur Traders and The Coral Island (10) |
| VERNE | Author of adventure novels including Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island (5) |
| IDEALISING | Being unrealistic about claims made by trader and performer? |
| RANSOME | Author of a series of adventure novels about characters including the Amazons, the Coots, the Hullabaloos and the Swallows |
| ORCZY | Baroness Emma -; author of adventure novels including The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Emperor's Candlesti |
| SABATINI | Rafael -; author of adventure novels including The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood (8) |
| ANTHONYHOPE | Author of adventure novels including The Prisoner Of Zenda (7,4) |
| HAGGARD | Sir Henry Rider -; author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines and She (7) |
| RIDERHAGGARD | H. ___, English author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines (5,7) |
| FIJI | Archipelago in the South Pacific that includes the islands of Vatuvara and Taveuni, and the coral mass Rainbow Reef (4) |
| CAPEYORK | Northernmost extremity of Australia, projecting into the Torres Strait between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea. (4,4) |
| DUMAS | French author who wrote a number of adventure novels including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After (5) |
| MARKTWAIN | Make an impression on couple digesting a writer of adventure novels (4,5) |
| ALEXANDREDUMAS | French author who wrote the adventure novel The Count Of Monte Cristo (9,5) |
| OGDEN | Fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia |
| RIDER | H ___ Haggard, 19th-century writer of adventure novels (5) |
| CLIVE | ___ Cussler, writer of adventure novels (5) |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian trader and explorer; one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China and visit Kublai Khan (5,4) |
| TERS | The __, independent traders and residents of Nelson Mandela House, Peckham? (8) |
| TROT | The __, independent traders and residents of Nelson Mandela House, Peckham? (8) |
