| SLOWBOATTOCHINA | "I'd love to get you on" one, in a Frank Loesser song |
| OUTSIDE | Where it's cold, per a Frank Loesser song |
| CHINA | Harry Babbit and Gloria Wood sang with Kay Kyser's band, "I'd love to get you on a slow boat to ...; All to myself, alone" |
| GUYS | Start of a Frank Loesser title |
| REGIMEN | A doctor may place you on one |
| LOWSALTDIET | A doctor may put you on one |
| ERRANT | Do wrong and I'll send you on one (6) |
| ADELAIDESLAMENT | Classic Frank Loesser song from a 1950 musical |
| ONCEIN | "___ Love With Amy" (Frank Loesser song) |
| OFMAN | "Brotherhood ___" (Frank Loesser song) |
| ONASLOWBOATTOCHINA | 1948 Frank Loesser song |
| GODSAVE | A song to get you on your feet? (3,4,3,4) |
| ABOARD | A plank to get you on the boat |
| PODIUM | I'd need a mop to get you on the platform (6) |
| PRESSGANG | Journalists and friends, maybe they try to get you on board (5,4) |
| GANGPLANK | Board wanted to get you on board (9) |
| IFI | Gordon MacRae sang in Carousel, "Soon you'd leave me; Off you would go in the mist of day; Never, never to know; How I'd love you; ... loved you" (2,1) |
| GUYSANDDOLLS | Frank Loesser musical largely set in New York, first performed in 1950 (4,3,5) |
| AQUARIUM | A question on one in a strange water tank (8) |
| POLLER | One taking bets on one in a boat (6) |
