| ZOFFANY | Artist and adventurer alleged to have engaged in cannibalism when he was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean; his works include Charles Towneley in the Park St Gallery and Tribuna of the Uffizi (7) |
| ATOLL | Coral island and surrounding reef such as Diego Garcia (used by the US as a air base in the Indian O |
| DIEGORIVERA | Artist who claimed to have engaged in cannibalism in 1904 |
| KEW | District in London that is home to a botanical garden boasting the largest living plant collection on Earth and a gallery of more than 800 paintings by Victorian artist and adventurer Marianne North ( |
| PROSPERO | He is shipwrecked in "The Tempest" |
| AFR | It's west of the Indian O. |
| SSMINNOW | It was shipwrecked in 1964 somewhere in the South Pacific |
| MALTA | Where St. Paul was shipwrecked, in Acts |
| DABBLED | To have engaged in discussion, is to have done what (7) |
| DEBATED | To have engaged in discussion, is to have done what (7) |
| FENCED | To have engaged in sword fighting, is to have done what (6) |
| SPED | Hurried to have engaged in espionage when one left (4) |
| ESMERALDA | Sailiing ship in the Chilean navy, this training vessel is alleged to have been used for detention and torture in the post-Allende period |
| HEYERDAHL | Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer who crossed the Pacific in the balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (9) |
| BORDERTERRIER | Dog who might have engaged in action near the Tweed? |
| COLONELBLOOD | Irish soldier and adventurer who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671 (7,5) |
| ISAAC | Hebrew-derived name meaning "he laughs" which, ironically or funnily enough, was that of the brilliant but serious scientist Newton, alleged to have laughed precisely twice (5) |
| LUDD | Ned ___, supposed Leicestershire weaver alleged to have destroyed industrial machinery in the late 1 |
| NEDLUDD | 18th Century farmer in Leicestershire, England who was alleged to have destroyed industrial machiner |
| LIN | Chinese military leader, alleged to have plotted against Mao, who died in a plane crash in 1971 (3,4) |
