| COLUMBUS | Christopher --, Genoese discoverer of the New World (8) |
| CARACARA | Large, carrion-eating, diurnal bird of prey of the New World such as the Carunculated ___ or Striated ___ (8) |
| FRONTIER | New original scripted series on Discovery Canada set during the 1700s fur trade of the New World |
| AMERSHAM | Much of the new world bogus, according to Bucks town (8) |
| VESPUCCI | Amerigo ---, Italian explorer of the New World |
| GOODYEAR | Charles ___, US discoverer of the vulcanization process for rubber (8) |
| HERSCHEL | Sir William, discoverer of the planet Uranus in 1781 (8) |
| MAGELLAN | European discoverer of the Philippines |
| GRIMALDI | Genoese family in unpleasant discount supermarket (8) |
| GALILEO | Forename of the discoverer of the isochronism of a pendulum who improved upon the design of the refracting telescope to observe the four largest moons of Jupiter (7) |
| ROBERT | Forename of either the polymath discoverer of the law of elasticity, the inventor of the Bunsen burner or the Royal Society co-founder regarded as the first modern chemist (6) |
| ARNE | ___ Saknussemm, discoverer of the center of the earth in "Journey to the Center of the Earth" |
| CONQUISTADOR | Any of the Spanish conquerors of the New World in the 16c (12) |
| PANAMERICAN | Covering the whole of the New World (3-8) |
| CONDORS | Members of the New World vulture family and largest of the North American land birds |
| NATIONS | The first meeting of the new world body, the United ..., was held on January 30, 1946 |
| SPANISH | Language of much of the New World |
| DOPPLER | Discoverer of the effect of relative speed on the observed frequency of waves |
| CRICK | Co-discoverer of the contents of the circled letters |
| WATSON | Co-discoverer of the contents of the circled letters |