| KRISS | North Pole first name |
| PENPAL | Ring about North Pole's first foreign correspondent? |
| SPARRED | Pretended to box with colourful pole first (7) |
| SPARE | Pole, first to enter for free (5) |
| SOUTH | Pole first reached by Roald Amundsen. |
| BYRD | "With ___ at the South Pole," first documentary to win an Oscar (for cinematography) |
| NAIROBI | Capital for Pole, first class, with tailless bird (7) |
| CONVIVIAL | Putting the pole first, Fuchs? Pass out! Get festive! (9) |
| DROOP | Flag duly rising on our pole, first of all (5) |
| AMUNDSEN | Captain of Norge's flight over the North Pole in 1926 and first human to lead an expedition to the South Pole (8) |
| CLAUS | Name associated with the North Pole |
| LATITUDE | 90 degrees north, for the North Pole |
| ICE | For the first time in millions of years, it was absent from the North Pole |
| ROBERT | Peary, credited with being the first to reach the North Pole |
| LOUISE | ___ Arner Boyd, the first woman to fly over the North Pole |
| PEARY | First person to reach the geographic North Pole, he claimed |
| EQUATOR | Imaginary line equidistant from the North Pole and the South Pole (7) |
| UMBERTO | Italian aviator whose airship may have been the first aircraft to fly over the North Pole; ... Nobil |
| ARCTICTRAIL | The ___ ___: The Quest for the north West Passage and the north Pole, 1818 - 1909 (Pierre Berton book) |
| MAGNETS | Pieces of metal, once known as lodestones, with a south pole and a north pole |
