| CORSAIR | A privateer with a rough-sounding manner (7) |
| RASPY | Like a rough-sounding voice |
| SHRILLY | In a harsh-sounding manner |
| AVOCADO | Edible pear-shaped fruit with a rough greenish-brown skin (7) |
| RAUCOUS | Harsh and rough-sounding (7) |
| PIRATE | A sea robber or maritime marauder under a black flag who, unlike a privateer, operated without a sovereign's letter-of-marque, aka permission to plunder (6) |
| EXPIATE | Former privateer runs off to make amends (7) |
| FRANCIS | __ Drake, English privateer (7) |
| LAFITTE | Jean ___, French pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico after whom a town in Louisiana is named |
| RALEIGH | Privateer who led two expeditions in search of the fabled lost city of gold, El Dorado, and fathered three sons with Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton, including Carew, conceived in the |
| REPARATIVE | A privateer at sea, righting wrongs (10) |
| PERSPIRATES | A privateer aboard ship rarely sweats |
| CAPTAINMORGAN | *Rum brand named after a privateer |
| PIRATES | Privateers |
| SEADOGS | Elizabeth I's band of swashbuckling privateers whose notable captains and explorers included John Davis, Francis Drake, Martin Frobisher, Humphrey Gilbert, Richard Grenville, John Hawkins and Walter R |
| MIEN | Humble-sounding manner (4) |
| ASSAULTCOURSES | Training for soldiers to become offensive, rough sounding sergeants primarily (7,7) |
| ROCKCAKE | With vintage recipes by Isabella Beeton and by Constance Spry, an old-fashioned type of fruited bun with a rough sugared surface, supposedly resembling a stone (4,4) |
| SCARES | Gives one a fright with a rough caress (6) |
| SHAGREEN | A kind of untanned leather with a rough granulated surface (8) |
