| FIENNES | British explorer, writer and poet who was the first person to completely cross Antarctica on foot (7,7) |
| RANULPH | British explorer, writer and poet who was the first person to completely cross Antarctica on foot (7,7) |
| RANULPHFIENNES | British explorer, the first to cross Antarctica on foot |
| HERMANMELVILLE | American writer and poet who wrote a very famous book, in which the narrator, Ishmael, marries his friend Queequeg. |
| RALEIGH | Name the English explorer, author and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Waiter... (7) |
| FUCHS | Sir Vivien --, leader of an expedition to cross Antarctica overland in 1957-8 (5) |
| BENJONSON | English playwright and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (3,6) |
| KEROUAC | Jack, U.S. novelist and poet who was a leading figure in the Beat Generation (7) |
| RRP | Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich. |
| EDWARDLEAR | Author and poet who popularised limericks and wrote The Owl and The Pussycat (6,4) |
| LEAR | 19th Century author and poet who wrote The Owl and The Pussycat (4) |
| RADCLYFFEHALL | British author and poet who faced an obscenity trial over her 1928 novel The Well Of Loneliness (9,4) |
| ROSEN | Michael _, British poet who was the Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009 (5) |
| RICHARDSAVAGE | English poet who was the subject of Samuel Johnson's first extended literary biography, published in 1744 (7,6) |
| SASSOON | Author and poet who penned a trilogy comprising Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress (7) |
| EMILYBRONTE | 19th-century English author and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell (5,6) |
| ADMIRALTYRANGE | Group of mountains in Antarctica on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, bounded by the Ross Sea |
| ADMIRALTY | & 18D Group of mountains in Antarctica on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, bounded by the Ross Sea (9,5) |
| LESMURRAY | Aust. poet who was the literary editor of the journal Quadrant (3,5) |
| TASSO | Italian poet who was the subject of a Goethe play and a Donizetti opera |
