| PIGEON | For example, Homer's Greek character gone travelling |
| ILIAD | Homer's Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy (5) |
| PERIPATETIC | For each one getting sad when husband's gone travelling |
| CARRIERPIGEON | Bag foreign character, gone out as a messenger (7,6) |
| TALL | Barely credible saga when last character's gone and left (4) |
| LIPMAN | Dame Maureen _, whose Corrie character's gone to uni (6) |
| ABEDNEGO | Ex-fireman's retired and gone travelling |
| REGION | Had I gone travelling to the right area? |
| SPATOWN | Having gone travelling, now past Malvern? |
| BOTSWANA | Having gone travelling, saw bat on Precious Ramotswe's land |
| THEORIENT | Having gone travelling, I enter hot Eastern countries |
| PLAYITBYEAR | With last character gone, lazy bar type I fancy has to improvise (4,2,2,3) |
| IRISHSEA | Flower girl has gone travelling around Spain in the main (5,3) |
| JAHA | He hit 35 homers for Oakland in 1999 |
| OTT | He led his team in homers for 18 straight years |
| GOPHERBALLS | They're belted for homers |
| ZEILE | Todd who hit homers for 11 MLB teams |
| AROD | Yankee slugger who just broke the A.L. record for most homers in Apr. |
| MARIS | Roger who earned an asterisk for hitting his then-record 61 homers in 162 games |
| AARON | Baseball player with 755 homers |
