| PEARY | Robert ___, US arctic explorer credited as the first person to reach the North Pole, on 6 April 1909 (5,5) |
| EDWIN | And 30 Robert ___, US arctic explorer credited as the first person to reach the North Pole, on 6 April 1909 (5,5) |
| NANSEN | Fridtjof, Norwegian explorer who tried to reach the North Pole on the ship Fram in the 1890s (6) |
| FINANCIALYEAR | Accounting or tax period, eg 6 April - 5 April (9,4) |
| ANTELOPE | Ruminant worker goes to North Pole on first employment (8) |
| RALEIGH | Sir Walter - - -,explorer credited with popularising tobacco in England (7) |
| BYRD | Richard E ___, US naval officer who claimed to be the first person to reach the North and South Poles by air (4) |
| ROBERT | Peary, credited with being the first to reach the North Pole |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | In 1926, who was the first expedition leader to reach the North Pole? (5,8) |
| AMUNDSEN | Roald, Norwegian explorer and navigator who was the first person to reach the South Pole (8) |
| MOUNTAINEER | Climber such as Maurice Herzog who, in 1950, became the first person to reach the summit of a peak o |
| OTTO | Explorer Sverdrup, who sought to reach the North Pole |
| ANN | --- Bancroft, first woman to reach the North Pole (3) |
| ROALD | Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole |
| SINGER | Credited as the first "talkie": The Jazz ___, released in 1927 (6) |
| EAUDENIL | Pale pastel-green hue named for its supposed resemblance to the colour of the water of the river credited as the world's longest (3,2,3) |
| ASININE | As stupid as the first person having one over the eight (7) |
| AUSTIN | Bunny ---, the last British person to reach the Wimbledon men's singles final until Andy Murray did so in 2012 (6) |
| THOMAS | German Augustinian monk credited as the author of 15th-century devotional work The Imitation of Christ (6,1,6) |
| AKEMPIS | German Augustinian monk credited as the author of 15th-century devotional work The Imitation of Christ (6,1,6) |
