| THESIGER | Explorer who wrote about his travels across the Empty Quarter or Rub' al Khali in Arabian Sands (8) |
| ONTHEROAD | Jack Kerouac novel of 1957 about his travels across America (2,3,4) |
| SWIMS | Travels across the pond, say |
| PETRARCH | Italian poet who wrote about his love for Laura in Canzoniere (8) |
| EMPTY | Rub' al Khali, the large desert in the Arabian Peninsula, is also called The ... Quarter |
| STARGATE | 2000s science fiction franchise that featured a device that enables instantaneous travel across the cosmos (8) |
| EUROSTAR | Eras Tour's unconventional choice for travel across the pond (8) |
| RUHEN | Which journalist and author wrote about his travels in Papua New Guinea in Mountains in the Clouds ( |
| SARABAND | 11 ? contents of Empty Quarter, with appropriate resident? (8) |
| EVIDENCE | Proof from Venice travels across Germany (8) |
| AIRSTRIP | A spirit travels across road and runway (8) |
| DESERTS | Regions that receive little precipitation such as the Gobi, Sahara or the Rub' al Khali (7) |
| MARCO | Polo who wrote about his travels to Cathay in "Il Milione" |
| NIVEN | Actor who starred as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and wrote about his life in the memoir The Moon's a Balloon (5) |
| HARDY | Dorset novelist who wrote about his fictional land Wessex in Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and other books (5) |
| OMAN | Land in the Rub al Khali |
| RUBALKHALI | Vast desert region in the southern Arabian Peninsula, constituting the largest portion of the Arabian Desert. Its name means "Empty Quarter" in Arabic. (3,2,5) |
| STARK | Explorer who wrote about her exploits travelling uncharted Middle Eastern lands by camel, donkey and foot in The Valleys of the Assassins and other books (5) |
| SOLOMON | ____ Northup, U.S. farmer who wrote about his time as a slave in the memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) |
| ARABIA | Home of the Nefud and Rub' al Khali deserts |
