| ERICSON | Explorer born around A.D. 970 |
| JUICE | PlusWord No 970 |
| EXETER | The ___ Book, written down about 970, is the largest collection of Old English poetry in existence (6) |
| VESPUCCI | Amerigo, Italian-born merchant and explorer born in 1454 noted for his New World voyages (8) |
| LASALLEB | Explorer born Rene-Robert Cavelier |
| COLUMBUS | Explorer born in Genoa (8) |
| JACQUESCOUSTEAU | Explorer born 6/11/1910 |
| MUNGOPARK | Scottish explorer born near Selkirk in 1771 (5,4) |
| ABEL | ____ Tasman, Dutch seafarer and explorer born in 1603 (4) |
| TILMAN | Bill ___, English mountaineer and explorer, born in 1898 (6) |
| OLD | Like Jonathan, a tortoise born around 1832 |
| MUNGO | Scottish explorer born in 1771 who published the volume Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa |
| RANULPH | ___ Fiennes, British adventurer and pioneering polar explorer born in 1944 (7) |
| NAVIGATOR | Henry The ____, Portuguese explorer born in 1394 who voyaged along Africa's west coast (9) |
| JOHNSMITH | Soldier and explorer born in 1580 who coined the term New England (4,5) |
| PARRY | Bruce ___, explorer born in 1969 noted for filming with indigenous people (5) |
| IBNGABIROL | Jewish philosopher and poet after whom is named a Tel Aviv street - born around 1020 CE in Malaga, Spain (3,7) |
| HIPPOCRATES | Physician and philosopher born around 460BCE, whose school established medicine as a profession (11) |
| AGEGROUP | A number of people born around the same time in Prague go bananas (3,5) |
| MELBOURNE | Mule born around five PM (9) |
