| MATTHEW | Explorer and navigator who sailed anti-clockwise round Australia, making maps that were still in use |
| FLINDERS | Explorer and navigator who sailed anti-clockwise round Australia, making maps that were still in use |
| TORRES | Name a Spanish navigator who sailed between New Guinea and Australia in 1605 (6) |
| CHORIZO | In Australia, making comeback after mixed choir performs something spicy |
| IMOLA | F1 race track, the venue of the San Marino Grand Prix, one of the few circuits to run anti-clockwise (5) |
| WIDDERSHINS | Anti-clockwise (11) |
| PUNCH | ___ and Judy comedy duo had their origins in 16th-century commedia dell'arte and were still in popular in the 19th century as puppets. |
| ROALD | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first man to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| AMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first man to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| AMERIGO | _ Vespucci, 15th Century Italian explorer and navigator who had a continent named after him (7) |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first person to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| CAPTAINJAMESCOOK | English explorer and navigator who circumnavigated New Zealand (7,5,4) |
| VESPUCCI | Explorer and navigator from Florence, 1454-1512, who sailed to the 'New World' four times (8) |
| AMERIGOVESPUCCI | Italian explorer and navigator, 1454-1512, who made voyages on behalf of Spain and Portugal (7,8) |
| VOWED | Five were still in debt, but made a solemn promise (5) |
| MANAGED | Staff getting on a bit were still in charge (7) |
| HENRYHUDSON | English explorer and navigator after whom a river in New York State is named (5,6) |
| MACROZAMIA | Computer memory accessed quickly round Australia and Iowa: it's seeded in the former |
| ATLAS | Word for a book or collection of maps that was coined by geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator as a tribute to a Titan of the same name (5) |
| NEEDLESSTOSAY | IoW feature last visited by people making maps of course (8,2,3) |
