| MUNGOPARK | Scottish explorer who described his adventures in "Travels in the Interior of Africa" |
| WOOD | Explorer who has written about his adventures in books including Walking the Nile, Walking the Himalayas, Eastern Horizons and Arabia (4) |
| MUNGO | Scottish explorer born in 1771 who published the volume Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa |
| GEOTHERMAL | Of or relating to the heat in the interior of the Earth (10) |
| BALSA | What light wood is used in the interiors of aircraft to reduce vibration? (5) |
| ORWELL | Author born Eric Arthur Blair in India in 1903 who described his vision of the future in Nineteen Eighty-Four (6) |
| GALILEO | Forename of the astronomer who described his telescopic discoveries including four moons of Jupiter in his treatise Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) (7) |
| LAWRENCE | T. E. -; soldier who described his experience of the Arab Revolt in Seven Pillars of Wisdom (8) |
| FRANKBRUNO | Boxer who described his sport as "the toughest and loneliest sport in the world" |
| RAE | John ___, 19th-century Scottish explorer who authored the book Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea, in 1846 and 1847 (3) |
| DALI | Figure who described his mustache as "like two erect sentries" that "defend the entrance to my real self" |
| DENT | Who is the Earthman (Arthur ___) who space-travels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? (4) |
| BRUCE | James ___, Scottish explorer who discovered the source of the Blue Nile (5) |
| YAHOOS | Brute creatures encountered by Gulliver on his travels in the land of the Houyhnhnms (6) |
| PARK | Mungo, Scottish explorer who led two expeditions to trace the course of the Niger (4) |
| GAMGEE | Hobbit family of the Shire, one of whom, Samwise, accompanied Frodo Baggins on his adventures (6) |
| STARK | Last name of the 20th-century British author of classic books about her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan (5) |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian merchant and explorer noted for his travels in the Mongol empire (5,4) |
| HANNAY | His adventures involved a number of steps to get girl into the long grass |
| SKIS | Lives south of Saskatchewan and travels in the cold? |
