| BOATYMCBOATFACE | Proposed name for what became the research vessel RSS Sir David Attenborough |
| TWIN | ___ Territories, nickname for what became the state of Oklahoma |
| IMITATION | - game; proposed name for what became known as the Turing Test (9) |
| BLOGS | RSS feed sources |
| ROYAL | Menzies' proposed name for the dollar (5) |
| LA | Home of the Coliseum, the first-ever venue for what became Supercross. (2) |
| JASPER | Original name for Tom in what became the Tom and Jerry cartoons |
| ARIZONA | In 1912, what became the 48th state of the US? (7) |
| ALASKA | In 1959, what became the 49th state of the USA? (6) |
| DREAMS | "What became of the likely lads/what became of the _ _ _ _ _ _ we had," The Libertines (6) |
| FITZROY | Captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage who wrote The Weather Book, invented a barometer and founded in 1854 what became the Met Office (7) |
| MOSES | ___ Yale Beach, founder of what became the Associated Press |
| SUNBEAM | In 1923, what became the first Britishmade car to win a Grand Prix? (7) |
| MURRAY | Sir James -; depicted in The Professor and the Madman, an early editor of what became the Oxford English Dictionary (6) |
| HEARST | What became the world’s biggest media conglomerate began with George ____’s purchase of a San Francisco newspaper in 1880 |
| SOLFERINO | Heavy French and Austrian casualties in this 1859 battle led Henry Dunant to found what became the Red Cross (9) |
| UMBRELLA | The name for what carried thing originated from ombra, the Italian word for shade? (8) |
| CALYPSO | The name of Jacques Cousteau's research vessel (7) |
| BLUEPLANET | - - II; documentary in which Sir David Attenborough explores the oceans; the most-watched programme of 2017 (4,6) |
| CHARTS | Nautical maps such as those prepared by Captain James Cook that were later used by Sir David Attenborough in the 19505 when he sailed the Great Barrier Reef (6) |
