| BLANCHARD | French balloonist who, accompanied by John Jeffries in 1785, made the first aerial crossing of the English Channel (9) |
| WHOOPIGOLDBERG | Actress and comedienne who's accompanied by old brute and old composer (6,8) |
| FALLSOUT | As it happens, it's like the balloonist who drops from basket (5,3) |
| ROLLS | Charles Stewart ___, British motoring and aviation pioneer who made the first non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane in 1910 (5) |
| NADAR | French balloonist born Gaspard-Felix Tournachon credited with having taken the first aerial photographs in 1858 |
| NORSE | Name of the airship in which Roald Amundsen and his crew made a crossing of the Arctic in 1926 (5) |
| KITTINGER | Joseph - - - became the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic in a gas balloon in 1984 (9) |
| TIKI | Kon -; balsa wood raft in which Thor Heyerdahl made his 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific Ocean in 1947 (4) |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general whose crossing of the Alps by elephant is depicted in a painting by Turner (8) |
| RIBAND | The Blue ___ is awarded to the liner which makes the fastest crossing of the Atlantic. (6) |
| LAMOTTE | Comtesse de ___ ___ was involved in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, a scandal at the court of Louis XVI in 1785 (2,5) |
| NEWLANARK | This site in Scotland was founded in 1785 as a cotton-spinning centre by David Dale with the support of Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the water frame. It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage |
| LINDBERGH | The first aviator to make a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic (9) |
| IACTAALEAEST | "The die is cast", Caesar's pronouncement on the crossing of the Rubicon (Suet. Div. Iul. 32) |
| MARIEANTOINETTE | The queen whose tarnished reputation was further damaged by the 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' in 1785, though she was blameless (5,10) |
| WILKIE | Scottish artist born in 1785 who painted Letter of Introduction, The Chelsea Pensioners Reading the |
| UBOAT | Menace in "Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania" |
| KONTIKI | Raft built by Thor Heyerdahl for his 1947 crossing of the Pacific (3-4) |
| ATLANTICOCEAN | The Blue Riband was the prize held by the vessel which had completed the fastest crossing of this body of water (8,5) |
| GUINNESS | The ... World Record for the fastest crossing of a tightrope by a dog was set by Ozzy at the Faith Animal Rescue Centre in Norfolk (8) |
