| MUNGOPARK | Scottish explorer who led two expeditions to trace the course of the Niger in Africa (5,4) |
| PARK | Mungo, Scottish explorer who led two expeditions to trace the course of the Niger (4) |
| OILRIVERS | The delta of the Niger, in Nigeria (3,6) |
| SCOTT | British naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic (6,6,5) |
| ROBERTFALCON | British naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic (6,6,5) |
| ROSC | Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for |
| RALEIGH | Privateer who led two expeditions in search of the fabled lost city of gold, El Dorado, and fathered three sons with Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton, including Carew, conceived in the |
| PLOT | Trace the course of a conspiracy |
| NIAMEY | Capital of Niger in West Africa (6) |
| TRACKSUIT | Outfit to trace the diamonds perhaps (9) |
| DELINEATE | Trace the shape of |
| ITHINKILL | Start of a path, which traces the opening lyric from a "Brady Bunch" song |
| THREEACTS | Traces the different parts of mew plays (5,4) |
| 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) |
| ELDORADO | Two expeditions to find which city of gold were led by Sir Walter Raleigh? (2,6) |
| ROSS | Sir John, explorer who led expeditions to Baffin Bay and to search for the North-West Passage (4) |
| MAGELLAN | Portuguese explorer who led and organised part of the expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of Earth before he was killed in a skirmish (8) |
| LEWIS | Meriwether ---, American explorer who led the Corps of Discovery to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase with William Clark (5) |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to the South Pole in the early 1900s: 2 wds. |
| COLUMBUS | Italian navigator and explorer who led expeditions to the New World (8) |
