| COASTGUARD | A UK emergency service contactable on land via 999 or at sea with pan-pan or a red flare (10) |
| ROAST | Pan ... or a word that follows pan |
| DEFERRAL | Red flare signals postponement (8) |
| FUSEES | Red flares |
| TURBULENCE | Local instability in the atmosphere or at sea (10) |
| LETTERBOX | Slot in a door or a red pillar for receiving mail; or, a case concealing a stamp in a puzzle-solving treasure hunt similar to geocaching (9) |
| BRICK | Word, thought to have been introduced by Flemish workmen, for a baked, fired or sun-dried building block of clay; a loaf of bread; a toy wooden block thus shaped; or, a red or deep terracotta colour ( |
| ROYAL | System of change-ringing with ten bells; or, a red deer stag with antlers of 12 or more branches or points (5) |
| BEAUFORTSCALE | In meteorology, a measure of wind velocities on objects on land or at sea (8,5) |
| HERALD | An announcer, courier, crier, harbinger, indicator, messenger or a portent of luck, whether a newspaper, officer of arms, pursuivant or a red-breasted merganser duck (6) |
| TOREADOR | Or a red one to him is one seen at a bullfight |
| HOLEANDCORNER | Surreptitious cheer on land or at sea |
| ATANCHOR | Moored or at sea on a chart? (2,6) |
| MARINE | Soldier trained to serve on land or at sea |
| OIL | Word with pan or paint |
| ANT | Insect that could be a black garden or a red wood |
| CHERRY | Ball or a red mark made by it on the bat. (6) |
| PAPER | Material used to make a broadsheet or a red-top (5) |
| YULETIDE | Old word for the season of Christmas or, a red-flowered cultivar of the Camellia sasanqua (8) |
| ROSEBAY | Weed by sea or at sea |