| BALLANTYNE | R M -. author of adventure novels The Young Fur Traders and The Coral Island (10) |
| RALPHROVER | In Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (1857), what is the name of one of the three boys shipwrecked |
| IDEALISING | Being unrealistic about claims made by trader and performer? |
| VERNE | Author of adventure novels including Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island (5) |
| ORCZY | Baroness Emma -; author of adventure novels including The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Emperor's Candlesti |
| SABATINI | Rafael -; author of adventure novels including The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood (8) |
| ANTHONYHOPE | Author of adventure novels including The Prisoner Of Zenda (7,4) |
| FIJI | Archipelago in the South Pacific that includes the islands of Vatuvara and Taveuni, and the coral mass Rainbow Reef (4) |
| CAPEYORK | Northernmost extremity of Australia, projecting into the Torres Strait between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea. (4,4) |
| HAGGARD | Sir Henry Rider -; author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines and She (7) |
| GAY | Peterkin ?, survivor, with Ralph Rover and Jack Martin, of a shipwreck in R M Ballantyne novel The Coral Island |
| ALEXANDREDUMAS | French author who wrote the adventure novel The Count Of Monte Cristo (9,5) |
| RIDERHAGGARD | H. ___, English author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines (5,7) |
| OGDEN | Fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian trader and explorer; one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China and visit Kublai Khan (5,4) |
| TERS | The __, independent traders and residents of Nelson Mandela House, Peckham? (8) |
| TROT | The __, independent traders and residents of Nelson Mandela House, Peckham? (8) |
| TROTTERS | The ___, independent traders and residents of Nelson Mandela House, Peckham? (8) |
| PETERKIN | --- Gay, character in R.M. Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (8) |
| PETERKINGAY | Youngest of the three castaways in RM Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (8,3) |
