| AUGUSTUSGREGORY | Who was Queensland's first Surveyor-General and led the 1858 expedition to find Leichhardt, only fin |
| SAMUELHOLLAND | Dutch cartographer (b.1728 d.1801) who became British North America's first Surveyor-General in 1764 |
| SMILE | Beam: at first surveyor measures its length exactly |
| ALCIBIADES | Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War who defected to the Spartans in 415, but returned and led the victories at Abydos and Cyzicus |
| KURTWARNER | Undrafted quarterback who won two MVP awards and led the St. Louis Rams to a win in the 2000 Super Bowl: 2 wds. |
| PETAIN | Philippe, French general who oversaw victory at Verdun in WWI and led the Vichy government in WWII (6) |
| MOTTLED | Little Thomas returned and led the way to tea - hence the blotchy appearance (7) |
| PEARY | Robert ___, US Arctic explorer who led an expedition to find the North Pole in 1909 (5) |
| SAMBROWNE | Military belt with a strap over the shoulder - it was named after its inventor, an officer of the British Army in India who lost an arm in the 1858 Mutiny (3,6) |
| EREBUS | Ship that sailed with HMS Terror on John Franklin's failed expedition to find the Northwest Passage (6) |
| VOSS | 1957 novel by Patrick White based upon the life of the 19th-century Prussian explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt |
| EVEREST | Surveyor-General of India, 1830-43, whose name was given to a geographical feature mapped in 1865 (7) |
| ELDORADO | Two expeditions to find which city of gold were led by Sir Walter Raleigh? (2,6) |
| TRIP | Expedition to find some fruit ripe for picking (4) |
| BASECAMP | HQ for expedition to find Cambridgeshire ape (4,4) |
| FORUM | Apartment and retail development in Leichhardt, the Italian ..... (5) |
| DANTE | There is a statue of this poet in the Italian Forum, Leichhardt (5) |
| SCOTT | Queensland's first long-serving State of Origin fullback (5) |
| LAW | Queensland's first Sheffield Shield-winning cricket captain (3) |
| BEETSON | Queensland's first State of Origin captain (7) |
