| VESPUCCI | Amerigo ---, Florentine navigator to the New World, after whom the Americas were named (8) |
| IBERIA | Name given by Greek navigators to the Spanish peninsula (6) |
| ORINOCO | River with the second-largest discharge volume in the New World, after the Amazon |
| PILGRIMS | Group that traveled to the New World to escape the perceived tyranny of the Church of England |
| GODSPEED | One of the three ships on the voyage to the New World that resulted in the founding of Jamestown |
| COLUMBUS | Italian navigator and explorer who led expeditions to the New World (8) |
| PLYMOUTH | The Pilgrim Fathers sailed to the New World aboard the Mayflower from this English port |
| HINDUISM | Indian religion - it's the third largest in the world after Christianity and Islam |
| DATEPALM | Desert tree carried by Spanish missionaries from Northern Africa to the New World (4,4) |
| HELSINKI | Second northernmost capital in the world after Reykjavik (8) |
| AMERIGOVESPUCCI | Florentine merchant and navigator who died in 1512, after whom the Americas are named (7,8) |
| THEORISE | Speculate they'll move up in the world, after article on October 1st |
| SEAROUTE | Way to the New World |
| CONCRETE | Second-most-used substance in the world, after water |
| AMERIGO | Florentine navigator (c.1454-1512) after whom North and South America are thought to be named (7) |
| KUPE | According to some Maori traditions, who was the first navigator to sail to these shores? (4) |
| INDIA | What the Americas were mistaken for by early European explorers |
| QUITO | Second-highest capital city in the world after La Paz, and the closest to the equator (5) |
| MAYFLOWER | Springtime blossom of hawthorn; the trailing arbutus; or, the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to the New World in 1620 (9) |
| GRAVITATION | Force poor navigator to adopt new way of processing data |
