| RUMBELOW | A meaningless or nonsense word containing the name of sailors' traditional grog and used in the refrain of some old sea shanties (8) |
| CLERIHEW | Form of comic verse consisting of two couplets containing the name of a famous person (8) |
| SLUGGARD | Layabout took swig of grog and puff of cigarette on rising (8) |
| YACHTSMAN | May chats about name of sailor (9) |
| BAYBERRYWAX | Substance removed from the surface of the fruit of the shrub Myrica faya and used in the manufacture of candles |
| OPUS | Latin for "work", found in the names of various styles of Roman masonry and used in the custom of numbering a specific musical composition (4) |
| BUNK | An abscondence, decampment, flee, flit, getaway or other hurried or furtive departure; a sleeping berth in a ship; either of a pair of beds, one above the other; or, nonsense (4) |
| COD | Word for a chap or fellow; a cushion or pillow; a gadoid food-fish; a hoax or jest; a pea husk; or, nonsense (3) |
| CLAUSE | A group of words containing a subject and finite verb / provision in a formal or legal document |
| SILVER | White, metallic chemical element extremely ductile and malleable, a conductor of heat and electricity and used in the manufacture of coins, jewelry |
| SQUISH | Imitative word describing the sound of soft mud being walked on or a berry being crushed; public school slang for marmalade; or, a dated word for bosh, foolish talk or nonsense (6) |
| FAD | From a term for trivial matters or nonsense, a word for a fashion, a fleeting craze, a furore or a whim (3) |
| TAR | Nickname for an old salt or sea dog that is an abbreviation of a word for waterproof canvas/sailcloth or sailors' traditional clothes (3) |
| FLUMMERY | Dialect word for a kind of cold porridge, pudding or Scots sowens of oatmeal; blancmange; anything insipid; or, empty talk, humbug, meaningless flattery or nonsense (8) |
| HUMBUG | A hoax, sham or trick; an imposter; a lump of toffee; a black-and-white peppermint drop to which a stripy wild boarlet is likened; or, nonsense, such as Christmas, according to Dickens's curmudgeon ca |
| SOUPSPOONS | The longest word containing only letters from the second half of the alphabet |
| MICROSCOPE | Magnifier developed by Galileo and used in the observations illustrated in Robert Hooke's book in which he coined the biological term "cell" (10) |
| APE | "A big, dumb, balding North American ___ with no chin" (definition of the nonsense word "kwyjibo," in a classic Simpsons scene) |
| LUCKYCOUNTRY | What phrase coined by Donald Horne, and used in the title of his 1964 book, was intended to be used |
| TANNIN | Yellowish or brownish solid compound found in some plants and used in the leather industry (6) |
