| ENGROSS | Absorb English Antarctic explorer (7) |
| WILFREDOWEN | Few in world bothered to absorb English war poet (7,4) |
| QUIESCENT | Stop to absorb English view, shortly resting (9) |
| OATES | English Antarctic explorer |
| LAWRENCE | and 19ac, English Antarctic explorer who walked out of a tent into a blizzard in 1912 |
| SEXIEST | Most provocative bigot absorbs English (7) |
| SCOTTIE | Antarctic explorer: that is, a hairy beast (7) |
| WEDDELL | James ___, Ostend-born navigator and Antarctic explorer who died in 1834 (7) |
| ROSSINI | Composer and Antarctic explorer in one |
| FUCHSIA | Antarctic explorer bringing back fine showy shrub |
| DOUGLAS | Antarctic explorer and geologist, Sir ... Mawson |
| ROSSSEA | Hosting around 240,000 emperor penguins, body of water discovered by an Antarctic explorer in 1841 w |
| LEFTOVER | Enthusiast absorbs English paper, something discarded (8) |
| MEAN | Average worker absorbs English (4) |
| ROSS | Antarctic explorer Sir James |
| FUCHS | Antarctic explorer Sir Vivian |
| SCOTT | British Antarctic explorer, died 1912 (5) |
| AMUNDSEN | Norwegian Antarctic explorer |
| SHACKLETON | Sir Ernest -, Antarctic explorer |
| OASES | Antarctic explorer has change of heart, seeing fertile spots |
