| CAMELEER | One journeying across the sands has arrived, look! |
| SHIPOFTHEDESERT | Camel floating across the sand? |
| ONEWAY | Journeying across Spain, single (3,3) |
| CARAVAN | Depicted in several paintings by Edwin Lord Weeks, generic name for a company of travellers journeying across a desert; or, a camel trainA (7) |
| RASMUSSEN | Roaming man sure to catch ship, one journeying to the Arctic |
| PILGRIM | One journeying to shrine etc (7) |
| TRAVELLER | One journeying from place to place (9) |
| WAYFARER | One journeying on foot |
| TRIPPER | One journeying for pleasure |
| AGUTTER | Jenny, actress who played Clara Dollmann in the 1979 film The Riddle of the Sands (7) |
| APSALMOFLIFE | Longfellow poem featuring the line 'Footprints on the sands of time' |
| ERSKINE | Author of 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands (7,8) |
| CHILDERS | Author of The Riddle of the Sands (8) |
| SAHARA | Where the Marathon des Sables ("Marathon of the Sands") is run |
| RIDDLE | 'The --- of the Sands', novel by Erskine Childers (6) |
| ERSKINECHILDERS | The Riddle of the Sands author clinked sherries roughly (7,8) |
| TIMETRAVELING | Journeying to the past and future |
| AIRLINETRAVEL | Rail, I've learnt, challenged journeying through the skies |
| SPYSTORY | Pick out point by British politician in The Riddle of the Sands, for instance (3,5) |
| DEE | Kingsley's "The Sands of ___" |
