| MARCO | Polo who wrote about his travels to Cathay in "Il Milione" |
| POLO | Traveller whose adventures along the Silk Road are described in Il Milione (4) |
| MARCOPOLO | Traveler to Cathay |
| THESIGER | Explorer who wrote about his travels across the Empty Quarter in Arabian Sands (8) |
| RUHEN | Which journalist and author wrote about his travels in Papua New Guinea in Mountains in the Clouds ( |
| DURRELL | Author who wrote about his childhood growing up in Corfu in books including My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
| DAHL | Novelist, spy and RAF ace fighter pilot who wrote about his life in Boy (4) |
| PETRARCH | Italian poet who wrote about his love for Laura in Canzoniere (8) |
| BEETHOVEN | Composer of Missa Solemnis and Fidelio who wrote about his deafness in a letter titled Heiligenstadt |
| JOYCE | Author who wrote about his homeland Ireland in novels including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (5) |
| HARDY | Dorset novelist who wrote about his fictional land Wessex in Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and other books (5) |
| SOLOMON | ____ Northup, U.S. farmer who wrote about his time as a slave in the memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) |
| ERNEST | ____ Hemingway, U.S. author who wrote about his time on safari in Green Hills Of Africa (6) |
| UNDER | Down ---, Bill Bryson's book about his travels around Australia (5) |
| ONTHEROAD | Jack Kerouac novel of 1957 about his travels across America (2,3,4) |
| NIVEN | Actor who starred as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and wrote about his life in the memoir The Moon's a Balloon (5) |
| LAURIELEE | British writer who frequently wrote about his childhood in the Slad Valley (6,3) |
| RAVEL | In his travels, he wrote many notes |
| TERI | Polo who played Rebecca on "Sports Night" |
| LEONORA | In Il Trovatore, ____ is courted by the Count di Luna, but in love with Manrico |
