| CAN | A vessel for preserved comestibles such as anchovies, baked beans, olives, peaches, pop or sardines; or, a short word for a spouted vessel with a nozzle/rose for watering plants (3) |
| SUPERFOOD | Word for any of various nutritious comestibles such acai, blueberry, goji, kale or quinoa (5,4) |
| SALAMIS | Ancient battle for preserved meats (7) |
| CANNED | Like Spam or sardines |
| CHOCKABLOCK | Term, in reference to a ship's tackle pulled as tight as possible, meaning brimming, crammed, full to bursting, jam-packed or sardine-wise (5-1-5) |
| HUER | A herring, pilchard or sardine fisherman's conder or lookout (4) |
| FISH | Salmon or sardine |
| INKHORN | Name of a vessel for holding sepia or other chirographic fluid on a desk, thus used as a byword for a learned pedant or fussy writer (7) |
| LADLE | A deep spoon for serving soup or sauce; a vessel for conveying molten metal in a foundry; or, a long-handled Scottish church collection-box (5) |
| AMPULLA | A two-handled ancient Roman flask; an altar cruet for consecrated wine and water; a pilgrim's bottle; or, a vessel for holy oil at a coronation (7) |
| VASE | A vessel for cut flowers such as a potiche or rose bowl (4) |
| CENSER | A vessel for producing a sweet smell as part of a religious ceremony (6) |
| PAN | Short word for a vessel for cooking roux, warming milk or boiling eggs; or, the Greek god of shepherds, flocks, pasture and woods (3) |
| LEEWAY | The navigator on board has to make allowance for this sideways drift or movement of a vessel (for th |
| ETNA | A vessel for heating liquids in a saucer of burning alcohol |
| NARROWBOAT | Steered by a tiller on its stern, a vessel for navigating UK canals (10) |
| BOATSWAIN | A vessel for the suitor who's a petty officer, perhaps (9) |
| CARAFE | An artist in a coffee shop with a vessel for wine |
| FERRY | A vessel for transporting passengers and vehicles across a body of water (5) |
| FLAGON | Name a vessel for holding wine, or the like (6) |
