Phoenix 12 Feb 2016

[werbone]

20D Thor Heyerdahl added a foot to his boat - and it became Kon-Tiki! (4) _ _ F T
Think it has to be RAFT but where does RA come from?

19A Paris, millennia ago, or faraway city after 1939-45 event, right? (7)
W _ R _ I _ _.
If 20D is RAFT, the last letter is R. WARRIOR?? WARTIME? (If so, 20D begins with E...).

Thanks.

[werbone]

Sorry, 20D is _ _ F _.

[fiction-factory]

RA +Ft

[fiction-factory]

Paris was a warrior I think

[Oldred]

warrior - war + Rio +r(ight)

[fiction-factory]

war rio r

[werbone]

Thanks, never heard of boats called Ra.

[fuzzy-brain]

Raft

Warrior

Ra was the next boat that Heyerdahl had made from papyrus - then he made a third also named Ra.

[Captain2]

Go down to item 5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Boats_Ra_and_Ra_II

[werbone]

Thanks all.

[writesbad]

^ RA was the name of the original Reed Boat