| SACAGAWEA | This translator aided Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Northwest |
| SACAJAWEA | This translator aided Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Northwest |
| BASECAMP | A starting point from which mountaineers set out on the main part of their expedition (4,4) |
| OREGONTRAIL | 19th century US pioneer route extending from western Missouri to the Pacific northwest, the ... (6,5) |
| OREGON | __ Trail (route to the Pacific Northwest) |
| STEELHEAD | Rainbow trout native to the Pacific Northwest (9) |
| ELK | Roosevelt ___ (animal native to the Pacific Northwest) |
| 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 |
| KIM | ___ Dickens Gone Girl actress who portrays Madison Clark on Fear the Walking Dead |
| CHINOOK | Language of the Pacific Northwest that's the origin of the word "potlatch" |
| BANKS | Botanist who accompanied James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific and helped to establish the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew (5) |
| 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) |
| AMUNDSEN | Captain of Norge's flight over the North Pole in 1926 and first human to lead an expedition to the South Pole (8) |
| ROALDAMUNDSEN | Norwegian explorer who led the first expedition to the South Pole in the early 1900s: 2 wds. |
| FROSTBITE | One of the fateful Franklin expedition-to-the-northwest passage afflictions |
| ANN | Explorer Bancroft who was the first woman to complete an expedition to the North Pole |
| DEAN | He played Clark on "Lois & Clark" |
| SARAHPAULSON | Portrayer of Marcia Clark on "American Crime Story": 2 wds. |
| JACKEEHARRY | Sister, Sister actress who played Sandra Clark on 227 |
| IDAHO | Mountainous US state forming the eastern section of the Pacific Northwest (5) |