| VESPUCCI | America was named after this explorer (8) |
| MARCOPOLO | Venice's international airport is named after this explorer (5,4) |
| AMERIGO | America was named after explorer ... Vespucci |
| TOMCREAN | Rome can't upset this explorer... |
| ICKENHAM | Collett WR 5944 named after this 'Hall' (8) |
| AMERIGOVESPUCCI | Navigator after whom the continent of America was named (7,8) |
| KIMWILDE | Kids In America was her first single in the UK top 10 (3,5) |
| STRELITZ | Prince Edward Island... Charlottetown is named after this Queen Consort who was married to King George III, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-___ (b.1744 - d.1818) |
| STOODOUT | Ridiculous to-do, to us, was highly noticeable |
| NORFOLK | A southwestern Pacific island was named after this English county |
| LARRYBIRD | Twitter’s old logo was named after this basketball star |
| EARLGREY | The CFL's coveted 'Cup' is named after this 1900s Governor General of Canada: 2 wds. |
| RASHOMON | An "effect" is named after this 1950 Kurosawa film in which a murder is described differently by four people |
| ORLANDO | The Canada-based project to collect the history of women's writing in the British Isles was named after this Virginia Woolf novel |
| HENRIETTA | The US state of Maryland was named after this wife of Charles I of England, Princess ... Maria |
| ELIHUYALE | A US university was named after this president of an East India Company settlement, which became Madras |
| MARYSOMERVILLE | One of the first women's colleges of Oxford University was named after this Scots mathematician (4,10) |
| ALBI | A 13th-century crusade against the Cathars was named after this city in southern France |
| UTES | Native American people after whom the 45th state of the US was named (4) |
| HEYERDAHL | In 1947, this explorer sets sail on his Kon Tiki raft to prove this island's original inhabitants sailed from South America. What is name of this explorer? |
