| SPELUNKER | A person whose hobby is the exploration and study of caves |
| SPELUNKING | Exploration and study of caves (10) |
| BOONE | Daniel ___, American frontiersman and a major figure in the exploration and settlement of Kentucky (5) |
| DELTIOLOGIST | Person whose hobby is collecting postcards (12) |
| STAMPCOLLECTOR | Person whose hobby is philately (5,9) |
| CAVING | The exploration of caves as a sport or scientific pursuit (6) |
| BRISTOL | City of southwest England, noted historically for its links with exploration and the slave trade (7) |
| SILHOUETTE | The dark outline of a person or thing against a brighter background, said to have taken its name from a French financier whose hobby was the cutting of paper shadow portraits (10) |
| SPOTTER | One whose hobby is watching for and noting numbers or types of trains, planes etc (7) |
| RAMBLERS | Those whose hobby is to take long walks in the countryside (8) |
| STEELBIRDER | Robot whose hobby is watching avian wildlife? |
| SPELEOLOGY | What is the scientific study of caves? (10) |
| SPELEOLOGIST | Exper t in the study of caves (12) |
| EPONYM | What do we call a person whose name is thought to be the source of the name of a city, country, etc (6) |
| MARTIN | Bird of the swallow family which likes to build its mud nests in the eaves of buildings and is abundant in Mallorca, where it originally suspended its nests from the roofs of caves (6) |
| SPELAEOLOGY | The scientific study of caves (11) |
| PSYCHOLOGY | Derived from a Greek word meaning "breath, spirit, soul", the science and study of the mind and behaviour (10) |
| MUNNINGS | Pre-eminent equestrian artist of his time, who painted such masterpieces as My Wife, My Horse and Myself and Study of Trees and Sky, despite being blinded, at age 20, by a thorny bush that struck his |
| SON | "The ___ of Man" (painting of a person whose face is obscured by an apple) |
| CONVENER | A person whose job is to call people together for a meeting of a committee (8) |
