| HEYERDAHL | Thor ___, Norwegian anthropologist who sailed across the Pacific in a balsa wood raft, the Kon-tiki (9) |
| KONTIKI | Raft sailed across the Pacific by Thor Heyerdahl in 1947 (3-4) |
| BALSA | What wood did Thor Heyerdahl use to build his raft, the Kon-Tiki? (5) |
| COLUMBUS | Christopher - - -, explorer who sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 (8) |
| LIGHTHOUSE | A balsa wood building to keep you off the rocks? (10) |
| SABAL | Small palm: Edinburgh's Botanic Garden has 200-year-old one... a balsa sort (5) |
| THOR | Norwegian anthropologist who crossed the Pacific from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (4,9) |
| THORHEYERDAHL | Norwegian anthropologist who sailed from Peru to the Pacific Islands in 1947 |
| TIKI | Kon -; balsa wood raft in which Thor Heyerdahl made his 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific Ocean in 1947 (4) |
| DART | Anthropologist who coined the genus name Australopithecus; a missile thrown from behind an oche; or, a tapered tuck in dressmaking (4) |
| DAVIDGRAEBER | Anthropologist who developed the concept of everyday communism in "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" |
| ULM | Partner of Kingsford-Smith on the first flight across the Pacific was Charles ... |
| JUNENASH | Feminist anthropologist who wrote "I Spent My Life in the Mines" |
| ROBERTS | Biological anthropologist who wrote and presented The Incredible Human Journey and Origins of Us (7) |
| ROSEBUD | Balsa wood prop in a 1941 movie |
| LAFARGE | Anthropologist who won a fiction Pulitzer |
| TRANSOCEANIC | Ancient orcas swimming across the Pacific, say? |
| ASIA | Continent across the Pacific |
| MACAU | Casino capital across the Pacific |
| ASEA | Yachting across the Pacific |
