| EREBUS | Ship that sailed with HMS Terror on John Franklin's failed expedition to find the Northwest Passage (6) |
| GEORGEWEYMOUTH | English explorer who made contact with the Wabanaki nations while attempting to find the northwest passage to India |
| NINA | Ship that sailed with the Pinta and the Santa Maria |
| PINTA | Ship that sailed with the Nina and the Santa Maria |
| EXPEDITIONSHIPS | Canadian Arctic, 1845... HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to British naval officer Sir John Franklin: 2 wds. |
| PEARY | Robert ___, US Arctic explorer who led an expedition to find the North Pole in 1909 (5) |
| HMS | Initials for John Franklin's Terror |
| GREENHITHE | Town on the River Thames in England from whence naval officer Sir John Franklin set sail on what would be a fateful 1845 expedition to the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic |
| ENDEAVOUR | Naturalist Sir Joseph Banks sailed with Cook to the South Pacific in the late 1760s on this vessel |
| AUGUSTUSGREGORY | Who was Queensland's first Surveyor-General and led the 1858 expedition to find Leichhardt, only fin |
| ARGO | Ship that sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece |
| SANTAMARIA | Ship that sailed alongside the Nina and Pinta |
| AMUNDSEN | Roald, first man to navigate the Northwest Passage and to reach the South Pole (8) |
| FRANKLIN | 1845: British naval officer who led a fateful expedition to the Northwest Passage, Sir John ___ (b.1786 - d.1847) |
| KNUDRASMUSSEN | Explorer, the "father of Eskimology" and the first European to cross the Northwest Passage by dog sled |
| WAVYBLUELINE | It symbolizes the Northwest Passage on the Northwest Territories coat of arms: 3 wds. |
| FROSTBITE | One of the fateful Franklin expedition-to-the-northwest passage afflictions |
| JASON | Who sailed with the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece? (5) |
| EXPEDITION | The Franklin ___ (Fateful quest of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic) |
| JOHNFRANKLIN | Rear admiral who led an expedition to the Northwest Passage in 1845 (4,8) |
