| RAJAHWHITTAKER | Singer of "New World in the Morning" Delhi nom-de-plume |
| ALICE | Wonderland character who says, "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!" |
| ACOMEDYOFERRORS | "I to the world am like a drop of water" play |
| CONQUISTADOR | Any of the Spanish conquerors of the New World in the 16c (12) |
| VESPUCCI | Navigator Amerigo, who made voyages to the New World in the late 15th and early 16th centuries (8) |
| MAYFLOWER | Springtime blossom of hawthorn; the trailing arbutus; or, the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to the New World in 1620 (9) |
| AGERATINA | Genus of New World perennials of the daisy family such as the Privet-leaved ___ (9) |
| BRAVE | The kind of "new world" seen in Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel (5) |
| NINA | What ship, with the Pinta and the Santa Maria, did Christopher Columbus command on his first voyage to the New World in 1492? (4) |
| COLUMBUS | Christopher, explorer who landed in the New World in 1492 (8) |
| ELLIE | What is the name of the girl who joins Tom in the undersea world in The Water-Babies ?(5) |
| PITCHLAKE | Largest natural deposit of bitumen in the world, in the coastal town of Le Brea in SW Trinidad (5,4) |
| KIRITIMATI | Largest atoll in the world, in the Line Islands of the west central Pacific (10) |
| TAIHAPE | Gumboot Capital of the World, in the Rangitikei District of the North Island (7) |
| ANGEL | The highest waterfall in the world, in the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela (5) |
| SINATRA | Singer of New York, New York, Frank ------- (7) |
| CEBUS | Genus of New World monkeys to which the capuchin belongs (5) |
| BRISTOL | British port from which John Cabot sailed to the New World in 1497 |
| ENGINEERS | Builders and designers of roads, bridges and manufacturing equipment in most of the world, in the US |
| WOODBLOCKS | Items used to create "pictures of the floating world" in the Japanese art of ukiyo-e, such as those at the V&A (10) |
