| HEYERDAHL | His voyage across the Pacific in the raft, Kon-Tiki, caught the imagination of the world; he was Tho |
| FANTASY | Once something simply seen or shown, now the imagination of the impossible, in a world of one's own (7) |
| UFOS | Space Invaders caught the imagination of conspiracy theorists (4) |
| POLYNESIA | Area of the Pacific in the triangle between New Zealand, Easter Island and Hawaii |
| SALAH | Egyptian-born forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Egypt national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, he is the captain of the Egyptian national team. (6) |
| THOR | Norwegian anthropologist who crossed the Pacific from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (4,9) |
| CAVENDISH | A famously eccentric and brilliant British scientist who discovered hydrogen and "weighed the world" - he was a master of gases, gravity, measures and might, yet so shy and reclusive he had an extra h |
| EMERSON | "Great books and great thoughts rule the world." He was a great exponent of New England Transcendentalism. Who is this? |
| BRAVO | All-rounder and winner of 15+ T20 titles across the world, he top scored in West Indies' match against India at the 2009 T20 Cricket World Cup |
| CROSSING | A voyage across a body of water; or, the intersection of the transepts and nave in a church (8) |
| SINBAD | In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages. |
| BANKS | A botanist who accompanied James Cook on his voyage around the world aboard Endeavour where he accumulated some 30,000 plants, later listed in his Florilegium (5) |
| KONTIKI | Raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands |
| LILLIPUT | A place in Dorset - or in the imagination of Jonathan Swift (8) |
| GALAPAGOS | During his voyage on the Beagle, Charles Darwin studied the vast number of species on this archipela |
| BEAGLE | Captained by Robert FitzRoy, the naval vessel aboard which Charles Darwin served as naturalist on his voyage around the world (6) |
| DISPORT | Play about where the voyage across the Styx ends? |
| BALSA | What wood was used for Thor Hyerdahl's raft Kon-Tiki? (5) |
| ULM | Partner of Kingsford-Smith on the first flight across the Pacific was Charles ... |
| NIGHTINGALE | Elusive chat or "Philomel" of scrub, thicket or woodland, whose lilting melodious nocturnal serenades have captured the imagination of artists, authors, musicians and poets throughout history (11) |
