| WEBB | The first person to cross the English Channel while swimming (he took 21 hours and 45 minutes) (4) |
| BLERIOT | The first aviator to cross the English Channel (7) |
| SWAM | Old English "dizzy, giddy, swoon, trance", today's paddle in a pool or perhaps natantly cross the English Channel to the coast of France (4) |
| MADRIDTOLIVERPOOL | Don't drive this 21-hour route between European cities-drive it in 2.5 hours! |
| DEVILSADVOCATE | Dad lives at cove, swimming - he also enjoys rowing (6,8) |
| BALLOON | In 1995 Steve Fossett became the first person to cross the Pacific solo in this type of gas-filled a |
| AGES | Hours and hours and hours and hours and ... (4) |
| HARE | Dramatist and screenwriter noted for plays Plenty, Skylight and Stuff Happens and films The Hours and The Reader (4) |
| BOLD | Daring person to cross lake (4) |
| HOLT | Australian prime minister who disappeared while swimming at Victoria's Cheviot Beach, Harold ... |
| RIPS | Tears may be dangerous while swimming |
| HALF | Period of 45 minutes in football (4) |
| DAYS | Daughter, say, is out for hours and hours (4) |
| HUSH | Silence at odd hours and short hours (4) |
| EMIT | Give out, as hours and minutes climbing (4) |
| NANSEN | Norwegian Arctic explorer and champion ski-jumper who was the first person to cross Greenland on skis (6) |
| ETAL | It's after hours, and others are going back (4) |
| TIME | Hours and minutes |
| GARR | Teri _, actress whose films include After Hours and Ghost World (4) |
| NIK | ___ Wallenda, the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope |
