| CONQUISTADOR | Military leader in the Spanish conquest of the New World in the 16th century (12) |
| AZTEC | Member of the Nahuatl speaking people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century (5) |
| INCA | Member of the Quechua people whose civilisation flourished in Peru before the Spanish conquest of the 1530s (4) |
| AZTECS | Nahuatl-speaking American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century (6) |
| MONTEZUMA | - - - II, ruler killed during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (9) |
| PIZARRO | Conquistador best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (9,7) |
| FRANCISCO | Conquistador best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (9,7) |
| VESPUCCI | Navigator Amerigo, who made voyages to the New World in the late 15th and early 16th centuries (8) |
| MAYFLOWER | Springtime blossom of hawthorn; the trailing arbutus; or, the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to the New World in 1620 (9) |
| CHIBCHA | South American Indians who at the time of the Spanish conquest occupied the high valleys surrounding the modern cities of Bogota and Tunja in Colombia |
| CUZCO | City of southern Peru; capital of the Inca Empire until the Spanish conquest in 1533 (5) |
| RAJAHWHITTAKER | Singer of "New World in the Morning" Delhi nom-de-plume |
| MARQUIS | ____ of Granby, pub name deriving from an English military leader in the Seven Years' War (7) |
| WELLINGTON | Name of a beef dish, a capital city, and a British military leader in the Napoleonic wars (10) |
| KLEPHT | A Greek resistance fighter following the Turkish conquest of the 15th century or during the 19th-century war of independence; subsequently, a mountain-dwelling brigand (6) |
| NINA | What ship, with the Pinta and the Santa Maria, did Christopher Columbus command on his first voyage to the New World in 1492? (4) |
| COLUMBUS | Christopher, explorer who landed in the New World in 1492 (8) |
| INCAS | Which ancient race of people lived in the Andes before the Spanish conquest? (5) |
| GIDEON | Prophet and military leader, in the Book of Judges (6) |
| BRISTOL | British port from which John Cabot sailed to the New World in 1497 |
