| COLDCOMFORT | Winning the consolation prize of a trip to the North Pole? (4,7) |
| LOSES | Gets the consolation prize |
| WAGGON | Got the prize of a horse loaded on a cart (6) |
| METRE | Unit of length originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian through Paris (5) |
| RIDGES | High points of a trip to the Rockies? |
| OPERA | The design for an ___ House on Sydney harbour won Danish architect Joern Utzon a prize of A£5,000 on on January 30, 1957" |
| TRIO | The start of a trip to Rio for a group (4) |
| ELVES | Some of the twelve spoke to the North Pole workers (5) |
| ANN | Explorer Bancroft who was the first woman to complete an expedition to the North Pole |
| BAN | Don't allow a bachelor to go to the North Pole (3) |
| DEARSANTA | Start of a letter to the North Pole |
| PRINT | My trip to the north and how to get it published (5) |
| NONDESCRIPT | The second trip to the North by no particular type |
| CATTELL | Raymond , psychologist, a recipient of the Wenner-Gren prize of the New York Academy of Science (7) |
| STEIN | Chef whose culinary tour of Cornwall included saffron harvesting on the Roseland Peninsula, lobstering off the coast of Port Issac and a trip to the Tresillian House orchards (5) |
| UPROAR | The first loud sound of a trip to mars? (6) |
| RELIGION | I, Goneril, have turned to the consolation of faith (8) |
| LOCALCALL | A trip to the pub to use the telephone? (5,4) |
| SANTAFETRAIL | Iron walkway that leads to the North Pole? |
| POLAR | Icy cold, like Tom Hanks' express to the North Pole (5) |
