| DIAS | Cape of Good Hope navigator |
| BANTU | Group of African languages that includes most of the principal languages spoken from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope |
| FYNBOS | Distinctive shrubby vegetation (Afrikaans, 'fine bush') of South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, similar to the maquis of Mediterranean coastal regions (6) |
| VASCO | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (5,2,4) |
| ENDERBY | --- Land is an Australian territory south of the Cape of Good Hope (7) |
| VASCODAGAMA | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope |
| DAGAMA | Vasco, navigator who discovered the sea route to India around the Cape of Good Hope (2,4) |
| DEGAMA | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (5,2,4) |
| GAMA | Vasco da ___, Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope |
| RSA | Cape of Good Hope nation (abbr.) |
| AFRICANLILIES | Hardy blooms native to the Cape of Good Hope |
| SOUTHAFRICA | Cape of Good Hope locale |
| FLYINGDUTCHMAN | Ghostly ship said to sail the seas around the Cape of Good Hope (6,8) |
| CAPE | ___ of Good Hope (geographic feature of South Africa) |
| THECE | ___ of Good Hope |
| SPEI | Plena ____ bonae: full of good hope, Cicero Attico in epistula 143 (7.19) |
| HOPE | Headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, the Cape of Good _ (4) |
| CAPEOF | --- Good Hope, rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa (4,2) |
| EPACT | Good Hope turning up on time with moon's age at start of year (5) |
| AHAB | "I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom" speaker of fiction |
