| PHILLIPS | Caryl ?, author of novels The Final Passage and In the Falling Snow |
| MOORCOCK | Michael, author of the science fiction novel The Final Programme (8) |
| AMID | "__ the Falling Snow": Enya song |
| TURBINE | Device that converts the energy in a stream of fluid into mechanical energy by passing the fluid through a system of stationary passages and passages made up of finlike blades attached to a rotor (7) |
| ARCTICTRAIL | The ___ ___: The Quest for the north West Passage and the north Pole, 1818 - 1909 (Pierre Berton book) |
| AUTUMN | "The falling leaves drift by the window / The ... leaves of red and gold" (song) |
| AMUNDSEN | Roald, first man to navigate the Northwest Passage and to reach the South Pole (8) |
| FROBISHER | Explorer who sought the Northwest Passage and fought the Spanish Armada |
| CHESSMAN | Caryl, American convict and author of Cell 2455 Death Row (8) |
| EBB | In contrast with "flow", a word for the falling back, going out, retreat or wane of the tide, thus any decrease, gradual decline or low state (3) |
| ISAAC | Forename of a polymath whose formulation of gravitational theory is said to be partly inspired by the falling of a Woolsthorpe pome (5) |
| VEGA | Brightest star in the constellation Lyra; from Arabic, 'the falling eagle' (4) |
| EVENTUAL | Final passage in European Union the French rejected (8) |
| VOTESDOWN | Blocks the passage and vows to end reform (5,4) |
| JANUS | The Roman god of doorways, passages and bridges, depicted with two heads facing opposite ways |
| REPRISES | Repeated musical passages, and what happens in five answers in this puzzle |
| AVALANCHE | Large mass of falling snow and ice (9) |
| CODA | Final passage of a piece of music |
| VARIANT | A different form of tank to catch the falling rain (7) |
| HELL | Classic AC/DC song represented by the falling circled letters and this answer |
