| 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 |
| EXPEDITIONSHIPS | Canadian Arctic, 1845... HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to British naval officer Sir John Franklin: 2 wds. |
| ENGLISHEXPLORER | canadian history... Sir Martin Frobisher or Sir John Franklin, for example: 2 wds. |
| RAE | Captain John ___, John Franklin searcher |
| STAINES | The home town of Ali G, on the left bank of the River Thames in Surrey (7) |
| LONDONEYE | A large Ferris wheel located on the South bank of the River Thames in Westminster, erected in 1999 (6,3) |
| MARLOW | Market town on the River Thames in Buckinghamshire (6) |
| EMBANKMENT | Thames -, reclaimed land next to the River Thames in central London (10) |
| ISIS | The upper part of the River Thames in Oxford (4) |
| HEARTH | A ___ tax was in force in England from 1662- 89, based on the number of fireplaces in a household (6) |
| JEROME | Author of the humorous account of a trip up the Thames in Three Men in a Boat and of a cycling tour in Three Men on the Bummel (6) |
| AGA | What is the cast iron heat storage stove and cooker, produced in England from 1957, much prized in country kitchens? (3) |
| SNUFF | What powdered substance was popular in England from the 17th to the early 19th century? (5) |
| PLYMOUTH | Port from which the Golden Hind, Mayflower and Beagle set sail on famous voyages (8) |
| SWANS | What birds on the River Thames are caught annually and marked as the property of the Queen? (5) |
| CHARTISTS | Supporters of the principles of the reform movement in England from 1838 to 1848 (9) |
| OXFORD | City on the Thames in which Evelyn Waugh set parts of Brideshead Revisited; England's capital city d |
| HEYERDAHL | In 1947, this explorer sets sail on his Kon Tiki raft to prove this island's original inhabitants sailed from South America. What is name of this explorer? |
| EREBUS | Ship that sailed with HMS Terror on John Franklin's failed expedition to find the Northwest Passage (6) |
| HAMSTER | Rodent emerges from River Thames in a storm |
