| 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? |
| SYNGE | J M ___, author of the stage play The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| VERNE | Author of adventure novels including Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island (5) |
| ALCOTT | Louisa M ___, author of the novels Little Women and Little Men (6) |
| PIRSIG | Robert M. ___, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (6) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| CAIN | James M ___, author of the novels Serenade and Mildred Pierce (4) |
| ANTHONYHOPE | Author of adventure novels including The Prisoner Of Zenda (7,4) |
| GAY | Peterkin ?, survivor, with Ralph Rover and Jack Martin, of a shipwreck in R M Ballantyne novel The Coral Island (3) |
| HAGGARD | Sir Henry Rider -; author of adventure novels including King Solomon's Mines and She (7) |
| DELAFIELD | E M ___, author of 1930 novel Diary of a Provincial Lady (9) |
| 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) |
