| ROYALMARINES | An arm of the Royal Navy whose motto is 'Per Mare, Per Terram' (5,7) |
| ROYAL | Branch of the armed forces whose motto is 'Per Mare, Per Terram' (5,7) |
| MARINES | Branch of the armed forces whose motto is 'Per Mare, Per Terram' (5,7) |
| POPPY | Wild flower with a species synonymous with remembering those who died during the First World War, depicted on the coat of arms of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (5) |
| FIRSTSEALORD | --- --- --- and Chief of the Naval Staff, title of the military head of the Royal Navy (5,3,4) |
| DESCENDERUNT | They went down: Aeneas, Ulixes, et Orpheus sub terram ____ |
| MARE | Per ____ per terram (motto of the Royal Marines) |
| ARABIA | John Johnson-Allen from Great Moulton wrote T. E. Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol: The Royal Navy's Role in Creating the Legend about the role of the Royal Navy in creating the legend that was Lawrenc |
| ROYALAIRFORCE | Organisation whose motto is 'Per Ardua ad Astra' (5,3,5) |
| RAF | Service whose motto is 'per ardua ad astra' (inits) (3) |
| JEZEBEL | Diluted drink of rum issued to the British Navy whose name derived from the nickname of admiral Edwa |
| GROG | Diluted drink of rum issued to the British Navy whose name derived from the nickname of admiral Edwa |
| BOYCE | Composer of the music to Heart of Oak, the official march of the Royal Navy (5) |
| GROA | Diluted drink of rum issued to the British Navy whose name derived from the nickname of Admiral Edward Vernon (4) |
| SPLENDID | HMS ___, name of four ships of the Royal Navy, the last of which, a submarine, was decommissioned in |
| ENGLISH | The --- Channel is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean linked with the North Sea by the Strait of Dover (7) |
| AQABA | The Gulf of ... is an arm of the Red Sea between the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (5) |
| OAK | Sacred to Roman god Jupiter, a tree in the genus Quercus whose use in shipbuilding inspired David Garrick's line in a song used as the official march of the Royal Navy (3) |
| RENOWN | HMS ___, name of eight ships of the Royal Navy, the last of which was a Resolution-class submarine launched in 1967 and paid off in 1996 |
| SPITHEAD | Area of the Solent where sailors of the Royal Navy mutinied in 1797 (8) |
