| VASCODAGAMA | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope |
| VASCO | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (5,2,4) |
| DEGAMA | Navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (5,2,4) |
| GAMA | Vasco da ___, Portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope |
| DAGAMA | Vasco, navigator who discovered the sea route to India around the Cape of Good Hope (2,4) |
| DIAS | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500). |
| FLYINGDUTCHMAN | Ghostly ship said to sail the seas around the Cape of Good Hope (6,8) |
| ESCAPEE | It's great to get away and make the most of what's to see around the Cape (7) |
| NORTHWESTPASSAGE | Sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific first successfully navigated by Roald Amundsen in the early 20th century |
| REPEL | Film about the capital of Portugal to be the reverse of attractive (5) |
| COLUMBUS | Italian navigator who discovered the New World (8) |
| EURASIA | Landmass stretching from Portugal to Chukotka (7) |
| ALTOS | Singers coming from Portugal to Spain |
| THEMAINCOURSE | Fish and chips, for example served on the sea route (3,4,6) |
| SCRIMP | Crim goes between capitals of Spain and Portugal to cut down costs (6) |
| JAMES | And 2 18th-century English navigator who discovered several Pacific and Atlantic islands (5,4) |
| COOK | James ?, 18th-century English navigator who discovered several Pacific and Atlantic islands |
| PELICAN | Nothing around the Cape but a bird (7) |
| DEEPSPACE | Speed around the Cape or, alternatively, way up there (4,5) |
| JOINUP | Little woman in uniform going to Portugal to enrol (4,2) |