| LIMEYS | 19th century slang term for British sailors (6) |
| MATELOT | 19th Century slang for a sailor, derived from the fact that two had to share a hammock |
| GROGS | Rum drinks for British sailors |
| ARNHEM | British sailors occupy a border town on the Rhine (6) |
| RENOWN | Fame British sailors have around East (6) |
| SCURVY | Disease caused by a dietary lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), prevalent amongst British sailors prior to 1795 (6) |
| BAOBAB | British sailors gathering round African tree |
| JUICER | A cider press, lemon squeezer, reamer or other fruit-essence extractor; a dipso, tippler, toper or wino; or, with "lime", a dated somewhat-disparaging nickname for a British sailor/person (6) |
| SINBAD | Unhappy implicating cool British sailor of fiction (6) |
| BASALT | British sailor holed by a rock |
| LIMEY | American and Australian term for British person |
| REDCOAT | Historical term for British soldier (7) |
| BOBBIES | What is a colloquial term for British police officers (7) |
| REDCOATS | Historical term for British Army soldiers (8) |
| TOMMIES | Informal term for British Army privates (7) |
| UKPLC | Informal term for British economy (2,3) |
| CHINLESSWONDERS | Disparaging term for British royalty |
| PHAT | Cool, in late 20th century slang |
| TEN | Cricket century (slang) (3) |
| HEP | With it, in last-century slang |
