Complete Clue List
Across
1. Shipboard device for lowering smaller vessels
4. Romania, to the Romans
7. Century year Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland explored the Orinoco River (Roman num.)
10. Amerigo Vespucci's third voyage discovered the sites of ____ de Janeiro and ____ de la Plata
11. Squeezing serpent
12. 13A remained in this Asian country for 17 years
13. Venetian explorer known for his 21D, ____ Polo
14. In 1492, 43A was looking for a new 22D to this Asian country
15. Cutting with sweeping strokes; action employed by explorers in jungles
18. Persistent: a useful attribute for explorers
22. A competitor, as with Amundsen, Scott and the race to reach the South Pole
25. Approximately
26. Piece of history
29. Santa ____ winds
30. Life story (abbr.)
31. Not yet hardened; or furled sails?
32. Pertaining to ships
33. Doled out
34. That ship
35. Period in history
36. Lyric poem
39. Henry ____ (1721-1806), explorer and colonial governor of Georgia and Nova Scotia
40. Vasco ____ de Balboa, Spanish explorer, governor and conquistador
43. In 1492, Christopher ____ was looking for a new 22D to 14A
46. Australia's hemisphere
51. Mexican empire overthrown by Hernán Cortés
52. Temporary substitute (often doctors or the clergy)
53. Consumer
54. Vital force of Chinese medicine
55. Look at
56. The fabled southern continent: "____ Australis"; existence disproved by James Cook
57. Sovereignty symbol; often commissioned explorers
58. A short person
Down
1. Levels on a ship
2. "There you have it!" from Jacques Cartier or Samuel de Champlain
3. Refuse
4. Caribbean country sharing an island discovered by 43A, formerly known as Santo Domingo (9,8)
5. Norwegian explorer, naturalist and author: ____ Alfred Bock (1849-1932)
6. Cryptids, possibly found in 47D and a target of some explorers (10,7)
7. New England state where explorer John Cabot possibly landed
8. Close-knit group
9. Total confusion
16. Welcoming gift for explorers visiting the Hawaiian Islands
17. Mediterranean ____ and Aegean ____: locations of 43A's teenage voyages
19. Sheltered side
20. Means of travel for polar explorers
21. Journeys (of explorers)
22. Way to go: a new one the aim of many explorers
23. Explorer ____ da Gama
24. Turning tool
26. Charles V, Holy ____ Emperor, supported Magellan's 1519 voyage
27. A language 26D reputedly spoke to God (along with Spanish)
28. Spanish port, site of Vespucci's departure in 1497
37. Vietnamese noodle soup
38. In 1509, Magellan found himself at the Battle of ____, a naval skirmish in the Arabian Sea
41. "That's awful!"
42. Listening device
43. Shore; Amerigo Vespucci's 1499 voyage explored this part of Brazil
44. Subsequently
45. Holy city of Islam
47. Himalayan land, supposed home of 6D
48. Land with pyramids
49. The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806) explored part of the ____ American continent
50. Reverberate