| BAFFINISLAND | Mount Thor, said to have the world’s biggest vertical drop, is in this part of Canada |
| HEARST | What became the world’s biggest media conglomerate began with George ____’s purchase of a San Francisco newspaper in 1880 |
| REVELSTOKE | Canadian ski resort with the biggest vertical in North America |
| VERTICALDROP | nunavut... Mount Thor is so steep that it's known for being the earth's greatest what?: 2 wds. |
| NORSEGODOFTHUNDER | Mount Thor, a peak in Auyuittuq National Park in Nunavut, is named after the ___ ___ ___ ___ |
| WEDDINGMARCH | Mendelssohn’s biggest hit? |
| NORTHWALES | Gwrych Castle, the location for I'm A Celeb in 2020 and 2021, is in this part of the UK (5,5) |
| SANQUHAR | Village on the River Nith said to have the oldest working post office in the world (8) |
| HOTELDIEU | The ____ de Paris is believed to be the world’s oldest hospital, founded in AD561 |
| KITTIWAKE | The world’s most inland colony of this seabird is in Newcastle upon Tyne |
| GAB | Word, based on slang for the mouth, for chatter, prattle or tittle-tattle one is said to have the gift of when fluent (3) |
| LAKESUPERIOR | Duluth, at the western end of ____, is the world’s furthest inland port reachable by oceangoing ships |
| WOOMERA | In the 1950s and 1960s, Australia’s ____Rocket Range was the world’s second-busiest after Cape Canaveral |
| SIENA | Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di ____ is one of the world’s oldest banks |
| EYE | Beauty is in this part of the beholder |
| SOHO | Thus half one's home is in this part of London (4) |
| OTTER | It's said to have the thickest fur of any mammal |
| MIDAS | One with an uncanny ability to make money may be said to have the ____ touch |
| AIRLINES | Colombia’s Avianca is one of the world’s oldest ____ |
| CREATIONISM | Belief in the biblical account of the world’s origins |