| NEWZEALANDER | Sir Edmund Hillary and Ernest Rutherford where both one of these (3,9) |
| RADON | Densest of the seven naturally-occurring chemical elements comprising the noble gases group, discovered by British scientists Robert B. Owens and Ernest Rutherford in 1899 (5) |
| REMUERA | Leafy suburb of Auckland, once home to Sir Edmund Hillary and Bruce McLaren (7) |
| EVEREST | Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach its summit |
| UNFAIRCHOICE | Contrived dilemma where both options leave you in the dark? (6,6) |
| OPENMARRIAGE | Match where both sides may play away? |
| PRIMUS | Brand of portable stove used at the summit of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (6) |
| HUNT | Leader of the 1953 expedition on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summited Everest (4) |
| YETI | In 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary investigated the existence of which creature? (4) |
| FUCHS | Who (Sir Vivian ___) led the Antarctic expedition that included Sir Edmund Hillary? (5) |
| NORGAY | Tenzing _; Sherpa who climbed the summit of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary (6) |
| FERGUSON | Brand of tractor driven to the South Pole by Sir Edmund Hillary in 1958 (8) |
| ICEAX | Piece of Sir Edmund Hillary memorabilia |
| MOUNTAINEER | Sir Edmund Hillary is a famous one |
| MINT | Kendal - cake; food eaten by Sir Edmund Hillary on his ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 (4) |
| EITHER | Tie up horse east of rivers, both one and the other |
| GUILLEMOT | This bird is the largest of the "auks" at about 45 cm long and 1 kg in weight. The female of this species lays her one egg on the ground, where both parents share incubation duties. They can dive in w |
| CLIMBERS | Edmund Hillary and Reinhold Messner, say (8) |
| CAMBRIDGE | University city where Sir Ernest Rutherford was a professor from 1919 to 1937 |
| CLAIMTOFAME | Climbing Mt. Everest, for Sir Edmund Hillary |
