| AMERIGOVESPUCCI | Navigator after whom the continent of America was named |
| AMERIGO | Forename of the navigator Vespucci, after whom the continent of America was named (7) |
| VESPUCCI | Amerigo, Florentine navigator after whom the Americas were named (8) |
| ROCKIES | Mountain range running down the west of the continent of North America |
| BARENTS | Willem ___, Dutch navigator after whom part of the Arctic Ocean is named (7) |
| CREDITCARD | Form of personal finance which Bank of America was the first to popularise in the 1950s (6,4) |
| SOUTHPOLE | Situated on the continent of Antarctica, this is one of two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface (5,4) |
| BAFFIN | William ?, 17th-century navigator after whom ? Bay in the Northwest Passage west of Greenland is named (6) |
| BOUGAINVILLE | Louis Antoine, French navigator after whom an island of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Islands is named (12) |
| ICE | The bedrock of the continent of Antarctica is almost completely buried under ___ (3) |
| VASCODAGAMA | Portuguese navigator (1460-1524) who discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of |
| ISTHMUS | Piece of connecting land such as that of Panama between the continents of North and South America |
| EUROSTEP | Tricky basketball footwork named for the continent of its origin |
| ASIA | The continent of the Orient? |
| LOUISIANAPURCHASE | Transaction in which a region of America was sold by Napoleon I to the US in 1803 (9,8) |
| GEORGIA | State of America was on Charles's mind (7) |
| CRIMEA | Where most of America was involved in war? (6) |
| TETHYS | Ocean that existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia during much of the Mesozoic era |
| HENRYHUDSON | English explorer and navigator after whom a river in New York State is named (5,6) |
| AUSTRALIA | Tasmanian devils are endemic to the continent of ___ |
