| FALMOUTH | Port in which Ellen MacArthur began and ended her record- breaking solo circumnavigation of the globe (8) |
| CHER | Superstar who began her first Las Vegas concert residency in 1979 and ended her third residency in 2020 |
| JOHNNYCARSON | The Tonight Show Starring ___ the show in which Ellen DeGeneres made one of her earliest TV appearances: 2 wds. |
| BATTEN | This aviatrix made a record-breaking solo flight from England to Australia in 1937, Jean ... |
| JUNO | 2007 movie in which Ellen Page played a pregnant teen |
| YACHTS | Boats raced by Loick Peyron, Chay Blyth and Ellen MacArthur (6) |
| YACHTSWOMAN | E.g. Ellen MacArthur, months away at sea, rounds cape (11) |
| SAILOR | Ben Ainslie or Ellen MacArthur, e.g. (6) |
| ELLEN | - - - MacArthur, sailor who broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005 (5) |
| MACARTHUR | Ellen, British sailor who broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005 (9) |
| ELLENMACARTHUR | Sailor who set a record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005 |
| DRAKE | Sea captain and explorer who commanded the Golden Hind on the first English circumnavigation of the Earth (5) |
| MAGELLAN | Portuguese explorer who led and organised part of the expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of Earth before he was killed in a skirmish (8) |
| KNOXJOHNSTON | Surname of the British sailor who was the first person to perform a single-handed, nonstop circumnavigation of the globe (4-8) |
| SIRFRANCISDRAKE | Elizabethan sea captain who undertook the second circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580 (3,7,5) |
| APRIL | Month in which the Civil War began and ended |
| APR | Mo. in which the Civil War began and ended |
| BANKSIA | Genus of evergreen Australian shrubs (family Proteaceae) named after the botanist who accompanied James Cook's circumnavigation of the globe (1768-71) (7) |
| ANSON | George ?, English naval commander who completed a circumnavigation of the globe in 1744 (5) |
| FERDINAND | Portuguese mariner who died on the first European circumnavigation of the Earth, ... Magellan |