| ROPES | Elaborate prose that a sailor should learn? (5) |
| BLOODRED | Sanguineous crimson colour of carpaccio beef, the vital fluid in one's head or even a sky at sunrise that a sailor may view with dread (5-3) |
| OVERWRITES | Uses excessively elaborate prose |
| POSER | The kind of prose that becomes a problem for us (5) |
| ESSAY | Prose that has a personal stance |
| ESPERANTO | Unusually neat prose that nobody speaks, naturally (9) |
| CORRESPONDENCE | Letters concerned prose that was very badly written |
| BRRR | Third of February, what a child should learn is, it's freezing! (4) |
| SCHOOL | No class-less society here one should learn (6) |
| RENAL | Every kid should learn about kidney action. (5) |
| SHARE | What two toddlers should learn to do |
| ALLATSEA | Where sailors should be completely disorganised |
| REEF | Knot sailors should avoid (4) |
| STUDENT | Tango in nude's going wrong -- with time one should learn (7) |
| LORELEI | Valuable bit of rock near port and point found in Long Island - somewhere sailors should avoid (7) |
| HEEL | Not the sole command a dog should learn (4) |
| UNEDITED | Like prose that is not checked or corrected (8) |
| MEDICALSCHOOL | Where students should learn how not to get sick of learning? (7,6) |
| PASTEL | Woad; a chalk-like crayon of ground pigment; a work of art made with this; a pale hue, such as baby pink/blue; or, a light poetic piece of prose (6) |
| IDYLL | From the Greek for "little picture", a peaceful or picturesque period or place; or, a pastorale, poem or prose piece portraying this (5) |
