| COLDCOMFORT | Winning the consolation prize of a trip to the North Pole? |
| LOSES | Gets the consolation prize |
| SANTAFETRAIL | Iron walkway that leads to the North Pole? |
| SOOTIER | Like Santa after returning to the North Pole? |
| METRE | Unit of length originally defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a meridian through Paris (5) |
| WAGGON | Got the prize of a horse loaded on a cart (6) |
| DEARSANTA | Line that goes to the North Pole? |
| PANACHE | That of a wild Apache swaggering around the North pole? (7) |
| RIDGES | High points of a trip to the Rockies? |
| OPERA | The design for an ___ House on Sydney harbour won Danish architect Joern Utzon a prize of A£5,000 on on January 30, 1957" |
| ONTOPOFTHEWORLD | Very glad to have reached the North Pole? (2,3,2,3,5) |
| TRIO | The start of a trip to Rio for a group (4) |
| ELVES | Some of the twelve spoke to the North Pole workers (5) |
| ANN | Explorer Bancroft who was the first woman to complete an expedition to the North Pole |
| BAN | Don't allow a bachelor to go to the North Pole (3) |
| PRINT | My trip to the north and how to get it published (5) |
| NONDESCRIPT | The second trip to the North by no particular type |
| CATTELL | Raymond , psychologist, a recipient of the Wenner-Gren prize of the New York Academy of Science (7) |
| STEIN | Chef whose culinary tour of Cornwall included saffron harvesting on the Roseland Peninsula, lobstering off the coast of Port Issac and a trip to the Tresillian House orchards (5) |
| SANTASSHELVES | Ledges upon which toys are stored at the North Pole? |
