| PRIMERO | Perhaps The Ancient Mariner's stopping for an ancient card game? (7) |
| COLDHEARTED | Indifferent about pressman holding ancient card (4-7) |
| NOAHSDOVE | The Ancient Mariner's port, for the most part, offered an olive branch to survivor of the flood (4'1,4) |
| ALBATROSS | The Ancient Mariner's burden (9) |
| DEADINTHEWATER | Like the Ancient Mariner's ship, tide- and weather-battered (4,2,3,5) |
| ASAIL | The ancient Mariner's cry |
| DARKAGES | Five hundred on the ancient mariner's boat at times in era of ignorance (4,4) |
| SEAS | Ancient mariners' expression for all the oceans of the world, Seven ... |
| THEOAKS | Article on old king stopping, for instance, for fillies' classic horse race (3,4) |
| CIRCUS | From the Latin meaning 'ring', a word for an ancient Roman arena for chariot races and gladiatorial combats that later came to mean a travelling company of performers |
| CAESAR | A scare, perhaps, for an ancient Roman (6) |
| CATSCRADLE | Tom's crib was remodelled for an ancient game (4,6) |
| THEBES | Greek name for an ancient Egyptian city on the Nile (6) |
| ARGO | An awful lot of cargo for an ancient ship (4) |
| BEDE | Sounds like part of the rosary for an ancient monk (4) |
| ARRESTING | Stopping for breather in a boxing arena (9) |
| GAS | It's worth stopping for on family vacations |
| AIRHOLE | Leeds runner needing short short break stopping for breather? (7) |
| HALTER | Person stopping for a lady's top? (6) |
| EVANGELIC | Army leaders stopping for one priest - Catholic or a sort of Protestant |
