| PHILOSOPHERS | Conceptually, they think timeless portholes must be scrapped aboard ship at sea (12) |
| SATAN | Evil influence aboard ships at anchor |
| RHAPSODISING | Being unrestrainedly enthusiastic, adoring ships at sea (12) |
| STEAMER | Ship that gets its portholes all fogged up? (7) |
| RELATE | Be conceptually connected (to) |
| SEMANTLE | Daily word-guessing game in which guesses are ranked by how conceptually close they are to the target word |
| BILLOW | Conceptually connected to "belly, bulge", a large cloud or great sea wave; or, poetically, the ocean itself (6) |
| ABSTRACTLY | Conceptually, sailor's essay's lousy, lacking substance (10) |
| DUALISM | The division of something conceptually into two opposed aspects (7) |
| ODYSSEYS | Do up yard for ship at sea? Yes - as they were popular with the Greek travellers! (8) |
| WRITTENOFF | Record includes tenor broadcasting back from party - it's bound to be scrapped (7,3) |
| FACELIFT | Cosmetic surgery file can be scrapped in fact (4-4) |
| RIGHTOFF | Without delay, car due to be scrapped is picked up |
| FORTHECHOP | Repetitive element in river parking soon to be scrapped (3,3,4) |
| STARWARS | Reagan's space plan was right to be scrapped after return of defectors |
| TERMINATOR | One concluding art with no merit should be scrapped (10) |
| SAFARI | Trip in wild Africa's about to be scrapped (6) |
| INALIENABLE | Belgium into popular foreign beer unable to be scrapped? (11) |
| DISTRAUGHT | Extremely upset that drug is to be scrapped (10) |
| AUSTRIAN | European and a US train to be scrapped (8) |