| RANULPH | ___ Fiennes, British adventurer and pioneering polar explorer born in 1944 (7) |
| EDWARD | First name of Bear Grylls, British adventurer and TV presenter (6) |
| LUPINO | Ida, Hollywood actor and pioneering director born in London in 1918 (6) |
| IDA | Film star and pioneering independent director Lupino |
| RAEBURN | Anna, British broadcaster born in 1944 noted for her work as an agony aunt (7) |
| LEONARD | ******* Slatkin, conductor and composer born in 1944 (7) |
| LABELLE | Patti, U.S. singer and actress born in 1944 noted for her song If Only You Knew (7) |
| SHAVERS | Earnie, late U.S. heavyweight boxer born in 1944 noted for his hard punching (7) |
| RALEIGH | Elizabeth I's courtier who became a famed adventurer and explorer before his execution at the Palace of Westminster in 1618 (7) |
| DALTREY | Which British rock vocalist, born in 1944, was a founding member of the archetypal mod band The Who |
| CAMPION | Albert _, fictional adventurer and detective created by the novelist Margery Allingham (7) |
| INDIANA | - - - Jones, adventurer and archaeologist played by Harrison Ford (7) |
| ERICSON | Explorer born around A.D. 970 |
| BRANSON | Virgin Group founder known as "Dr Yes" who describes himself as a "tieloathing adventurer and troubl |
| DESOTOS | Adventurer and Airstream |
| VESPUCCI | Amerigo, Italian-born merchant and explorer born in 1454 noted for his New World voyages (8) |
| RALPH | ___ Fiennes, British actor whose latest film, The Lego Batman Movie, is out now (pictured) (5) |
| MUNGO | Scottish explorer born in 1771 who published the volume Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa |
| JOHNSMITH | Soldier and explorer born in 1580 who coined the term New England (4,5) |
| ABEL | ____ Tasman, Dutch seafarer and explorer born in 1603 (4) |