| STANLEY | Henry Morton, journalist and explorer who met Livingstone in 1871 (7) |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian explorer who met Kublai Khan (5,4) |
| TANGANYIKA | Lake where Stanley met Livingstone |
| PRESUME | "Dr Livingstone, I -", greeting of Henry Morton Stanley upon locating David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Africa (7) |
| ZAMBEZI | African river navigated by David Livingstone in the 1850s (7) |
| RALEIGH | Sir Walter, English courtier and explorer who was beheaded in 1618 (7) |
| HILLARY | Edmund ---, New Zealandborn mountaineer and explorer who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay in May 1953 (7) |
| MESSNER | Reinhold, Italian mountaineer and explorer who made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest in 1980 (7) |
| ISADORA | American dancer and free thinker who met her death in Paris in 1927 dragged under the wheels of an a |
| UJIJI | Town in Tanzania on the shore of Lake Tanganyika where Henry Stanley found David Livingstone in 1871 (5) |
| BOULTON | Lunar Society co-founder who met contemporaries including Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley and business partner James Watt during the full moon (7) |
| VICENTE | Mexican president who met George W. in 2004 |
| SASSOON | Counter-Attack author who met fellow war poet Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart hospital during their convalescence from shellshock (7) |
| BRIANNA | Deadpool star who met her girlfriend on the set, ___ Hildebrand |
| ELAMITE | Ancient who met Elia |
| RIHANNA | Pop star who met with French president Emmanuel Macron to discuss her work with the Clara Lionel Foundation |
| LIVINGSTONE | His identity was "presumed" by journalist-explorer Henry Morton Stanley (11) |
| TIPPUTIB | What trader accompanied Henry Morton Stanley part way down the Congo River in 1876-77 and later came up against the claims of Belgian king Leopold II? |
| DARKCONTINENT | Description of Africa popularised in the title of an 1878 book by Henry Morton Stanley |
| COLUMBUS | Christopher ___, navigator and explorer who died in Valladolid, Spain in 1506 (8) |
