| RIGGING | Cordage that supports a ship's masts/sails or joins a hot-air balloon's basket to its envelope; or, aerial apparatus for a flying trapeze (7) |
| MAST | It supports a ship's sail |
| UNRIG | Remove a ship's masts and tackle |
| STAY | Guy rope bracing a ships mast; or, part of a corset that was historically constructed from whalebone (4) |
| TRUCK | Word for a barter, chore, collection of odds and ends, exchange, market-garden vegetables of the US or a Scottish deal, but also a barrow, bogie, cap atop a ship's mast, jazz dance, lorry, railway wag |
| SPAR | A stout round pole as a ship's mast |
| YARDARM | Either end of a spar on a ship's mast (7) |
| RIG | A costume or outfit; a CB transmitter and receiver; or, a boat's distinctive configuration of masts, sails, tackling etc (3) |
| CROWSNEST | A lookout platform high up on a ship's mast (5,4) |
| ELMO | St. ___'s fire, electrical charge forming a glow round a ship's mast (4) |
| NEST | Crow's ___ (platform on a ship's mast) |
| YARD | Long piece of wood slung across a ship's mast |
| FORETOPS | Platforms above a ship's mast |
| FORETOP | Platform around a ship's mast |
| STELMOSFIRE | A luminous region that sometimes appears around church spires and ships' masts, caused by atmospheric electricity (2,5,4) |
| RIGGER | Ships' masts and sails attendant |
| STEM | Section forming part of a ship, bike, wine glass, watch, musical note or letter; or, a structure that supports a flower, fruit or leaf (4) |
| PEDESTAL | A base that supports a column, statue, etc (8) |
| RIGHT | Correct height on masts, sails, etc |
| FRIGATE | Formation of masts, sails, etc, in large European ship (7) |
