| TUVALU | Ambassador not involved in the flap with the coral islands (6) |
| DIPLOMA | Certificate given by ambassador, not completed (7) |
| TORRES | -- Strait, channel linking the Arafura Sea with the Coral Sea (6) |
| SKIRTS | Garments with styles including bell, pencil, puffball, trumpet and tulip; petticoats; the lower edges of a sheep's fleece; or, the flaps covering a saddle's stirrup bars (6) |
| DEWLAP | The flap of skin on an iguana's neck |
| ATOLLS | As we discover a bridge tax imposed on coral islands (6) |
| WRASSE | Humphead ___ (fish sometimes called the king of the coral reef) |
| TORRESSTRAIT | Channel between Australia and New Guinea linking the Arafura Sea with the Coral Sea |
| PARTNERS | With the circled letters, investors not involved in the management of their businesses |
| RALPHROVER | In Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (1857), what is the name of one of the three boys shipwrecked |
| PETERKINGAY | Youngest of the three castaways in RM Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (8,3) |
| MORAY | Cooperative hunter with the coral grouper |
| GAY | Peterkin ?, survivor, with Ralph Rover and Jack Martin, of a shipwreck in R M Ballantyne novel The Coral Island (3) |
| ASGOODAS | How is Martin not involved in the Good Samaritans or very nearly? (2,4,2) |
| ORCHESTRATION | A chorister not involved in the arrangement |
| BALLANTYNE | R M ___, author of adventure novels The Young Fur Traders and The Coral Island (10) |
| ATOLL | Leading character's sound as a bell in The Coral Island |
| PETERKIN | --- Gay, character in R.M. Ballantyne's novel The Coral Island (8) |
| PANIC | Get in a flap with one of the buttons (5) |
| ENTREPOT | Peter not involved in the warehouse |
