| RANULPH | ---- Fiennes, English adventurer and explorer (7) |
| RALEIGH | Elizabeth I's courtier who became a famed adventurer and explorer before his execution at the Palace of Westminster in 1618 (7) |
| SIMONREEVE | English adventurer and host of many BBC documentaries (5,5) |
| RALEGH | English adventurer and one-time royal favourite executed on the orders of James VI & I (6) |
| INDIANA | - - - Jones, adventurer and archaeologist played by Harrison Ford (7) |
| CAMPION | Albert _, fictional adventurer and detective created by the novelist Margery Allingham (7) |
| DESOTOS | Adventurer and Airstream |
| BRANSON | Virgin Group founder known as "Dr Yes" who describes himself as a "tieloathing adventurer and troubl |
| HILLARY | Edmund ---, New Zealandborn mountaineer and explorer who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay in May 1953 (7) |
| BARENTS | - - - Sea, a part of the Arctic Ocean named after a Dutch navigator and explorer (7) |
| STANLEY | Henry Morton -, Welsh journalist and explorer who famously met Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji in 1871 (7) |
| MESSNER | Reinhold, Italian mountaineer and explorer who made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest in 1980 (7) |
| WILLIAMDAMPIER | English adventurer who visited Australia's NW coast in 1688 (7,7) |
| RALPH | ___ Fiennes, English actor, b. 1962 (5) |
| LIBERAL | BR and IE all get mixed up. That's so broad-minded! (7) |
| SEADOGS | Elizabeth I's band of swashbuckling privateers whose notable captains and explorers included John Davis, Francis Drake, Martin Frobisher, Humphrey Gilbert, Richard Grenville, John Hawkins and Walter R |
| LEARNER | Someone being taught by old king about sailors and explorers primarily (7) |
| BEARGRYLLS | English adventurer, writer and television presenter appointed the youngest ever Chief Scout at the age of 35 in 2009 |
| OGLE | Leer at English adventurer taking off top (4) |
| GRYLLS | Bear ?, adventurer and television presenter whose books include Facing the Frozen Ocean and Born Survivor |
