| DRACO | Constellation almost above the North Pole |
| ABOVO | From the beginning it's almost above getting nothing more (2,3) |
| JOVE | Judge almost above god |
| ARCTICTRAIL | The ___ ___: The Quest for the north West Passage and the north Pole, 1818 - 1909 (Pierre Berton book) |
| UMBERTONOBILE | Who, with the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth of the US, flew over the North Pole in 1926, completing the flight from Europe to North America? (7,6) |
| MERIDIAN | An imaginary semicircle on the earth's surface extending from the north pole to the south pole |
| METRE | One ten-millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the equator (as defined by the French Academy of Sciences in 1791) |
| EQUATOR | Imaginary line equidistant from the North Pole and the South Pole (7) |
| NAUTILUS | The American nuclear-powered submarine which sailed under the North Pole icecap in August 1958, under the captaincy of Commander W.R. Anderson, U.S.N. (8) |
| AMUNDSEN | Captain of Norge's flight over the North Pole in 1926 and first human to lead an expedition to the South Pole (8) |
| ANTIPODE | The North Pole vis-a-vis the South Pole, e.g. |
| RANULPHFIENNES | British explorer, the first person to visit the North Pole and South Pole without flying |
| NANSEN | Fridtjof, Norwegian explorer who tried to reach the North Pole on the ship Fram in the 1890s (6) |
| BYRD | Which American admiral flew over the North Pole in 1926 and the South Pole in 1929? (4) |
| PEARY | Robert Edwin ___, US arctic explorer regarded as the leader of the first expedition to reach the North Pole (April 6 1909) (5) |
| EARLY | The E of DEW - the line of radar site that scan the North Pole area for incoming missiles |
| ARCTIC | Of the region around the North Pole |
| LATITUDE | 90 degrees north, for the North Pole |
| NORTHFRIGIDZONE | Area between the North Pole and the Arctic Circle |
| ARCTICOCEAN | Name of the ocean encompassing the North Pole. (6,5) |
