Complete Clue List
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1. Spanish explorer Juan ___ de Leon supposedly searched Florida for a Fountain of Youth
5. Nineteenth century English explorer of Africa, John Hanning ___
9. This crossword is ___ explorers in different fields (Texting abbrev)
10. US southeastern state first explored by the Spaniard Hernando de Soto in 1540 (Postal abbrev)
11. Hannibal successfully explored the possibility of crossing this mountain range by elephant
13. Vasco Nunez de ___, leader of the first European expedition to cross the Isthmus of Panama
16. Country south of Northern Ireland, invaded/settled over time by different European explorers (Init)
17. Chemical symbol for silver
18. Explorers pay tax too.Those filing US business tax returns have this Federal Tax reference (Init)
19. Careful explorers kept records of what kit needed upkeep and what was unnecessary AKA an ___ (Init)
22. ISO code for Lesotho, believed first explored by Bantu people from a more northerly area of Africa
23. Walter ___, British explorer in the Americas who looked for El Dorado, the fabled golden city
26. Common name of British government department looking after citizens abroad, such as explorers (Init)
28. Turkish prime minister and president at intervals between 1923 and 1965, Ismet ___
30. Scientists exploring how to make milk last longer by heating finally perfected a(n) ___ method (Init
32. An unusually fast heart rate (Init)
33. Crick, Watson and Wilkins shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for their successful exploration of ___ (Init)
35. Hernando ___, Spanish voyager and conquistador who explored Mexico, among other places
37. Sources differ on which European explorer first saw Angel Falls, which ___ ___ the Churon River (2,2
38. Explorers ___ many different fields have added to our knowledge of the world
39. Airport code for Nairobi in Kenya, a country first visited by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
40. Robert Falcon ___, British Antarctic explorer
41. Australian explorer Justin ___ made first unsupported round ski trip to South Pole across Antarctica
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1. Robert ___, American explorer of the Arctic
2. British explorer of Australia, Charles ___ Sturt (anagram of RAPINE)
3. A major US television etc channel, for whom Walter Cronkite covered manned lunar explorations (Init)
4. A fictional alien trapped on Earth after his co-explorers left without him (Init)
6. James Castrission, friend or ___ of, and co-explorer with, 41A
7. River of Germany and Czech Republic, in area explored and settled before written records were kept
8. George William ___, British/Australian surveyor and explorer of New South Wales
12. '__ and behold' is an expression that may be said on finding something new, eg by exploration
13. Dutch navigator and Arctic explorer after whom a sea is named: William ___
14. Italian word for garlic, introduced into the Americas by Spanish, Portuguese and French explorers
15. Exploratory well-drilling in China found ___ underground in about 347 AD or earlier
20. Postal abbreviation for a state in New England between New Hampshire and Connecticut
21. Unlike Englishman James Cook, who was killed in Hawaii, most explorers came back in this condition
24. Text abbreviation used to say goodbye late in the day
25. A Canadian river is named after Henry ___, British sea explorer of Canadian and northeast USA waters
26. Vivian ___, British explorer who led the first overland crossing of Antarctica
27. Exclamation, usually of pleasure, such as might be said by successful explorers: '___'
29. English naturalist and explorer who took part in voyages to North America and Australia: Joseph ___
31. Wentworth, Lawson and Blaxland were a ___ of Australian explorers who crossed the Blue Mountains
34. To start with, moon explorations found ___ conclusive evidence of water there
36. German chemist Julius Wilbrand's explorations found this dye, later used as an explosive too (Init)
37. The ___ people are native to part of Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, first explored by the Portuguese
39. State in northeastern USA, first explored by the Italian Giovanni de Verrazzano (Postal abbrev)