| DRAKE | Francis ---, Elizabethan navigator who was viceadmiral of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 (5) |
| FRANCISDRAKE | Elizabethan navigator who was vice admiral of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 (7,5) |
| ARKROYAL | The flaghip of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada commanded by Lord Howard of Effingham (3,5) |
| HOWARD | Commander of England's fleet against the Spanish Armada and a patron of the troupe who became known as the Admiral's Men (6) |
| AMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first man to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| ROALD | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first man to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| FERDINANDMAGELLAN | Portuguese navigator who was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean (9,8) |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first person to reach the South Pole (5,8) |
| ABELTASMAN | Dutch navigator who was the first European discoverer of New Zealand (1642) and Tonga and Fiji (1643) (4,6) |
| BERING | Vitus ___, Danish navigator who was the first European to discover Alaska and its Aleutian Islands |
| SPANISHARMADA | Great fleet defeated in the Channel by English fleets in 1588 (7,6) |
| AGRIPPA | General of Augustus's fleet against Mark Antony |
| FRANCIS | Sir - Drake, Elizabethan navigator (7) |
| ERNIE | English fleet that's put together a computer |
| INFERNO | In which to incinerate data about English fleet? (7) |
| AENEAN | Man of "Arma virumque..." (acc. Graecus est, ut crebro) |
| TUBING | E.g. cylindrical shape of Arma Mesh (6) |
| TRUSOS | Men shoved or pushed, acc. pl., e.g. in arma, Tacitus, Hist. 5.25 |
| AMORES | Arma violentaque bella Ovidius parabat edere sed non, hos edit |
| INIUSTA | Unjust, harsh, unfair: Samnites Sidicinis ____ arma ... cum intulissent, Liv. 7.29 |