| DRIFTWEED | Aquatic vegetation washed ashore by the tide or wind |
| WASHEDUP | Carried ashore by the tide, exhausted |
| WRECK | A ruined ship or person; or, that which is cast ashore by the sea (5) |
| SELVEDGE | Border of aquatic vegetation little eel burrows into without hesitation |
| ALGAE | Aquatic vegetation |
| SEA | Alluded to in the stanza "full fathom five" in The Tempest, any one of the saline "mares" forming the oceans; a great wave; the tide; or, the maritime career of a sailor (3) |
| KNOT | Bird whose Latin name Calidris canutus recalls the story of King Canute and the tide; or, a flower bed design inspired by Renaissance embroideries and tapestries (4) |
| RECEDE | Move back, like the tide or a hairline |
| EDITOR | Senior journalist could turn the tide or add to it (6) |
| CYCLIC | Like the tides or the seasons |
| AMARYLLISES | Bloomers made by stupid sheep trapped by the tide on the rise |
| WASHINGUP | Dirty pots, etc, being cast ashore by tide |
| ROCKPOOL | Inhabited by limpets, crabs, starfish and other sea life, a shoreline ecosystem in the form of a natural aquarium left behind by the tide (4,4) |
| PEBBLE | Pocket-sized rock, polished by the tide, evocative of a duck or a drake when skimmed on the water's glide (6) |
| EBBS | Webb's cut off by the tide? That's the way it goes! |
| CURRENT | The dog was torn away by the tide (7) |
| LIEUTENANT | Word for "placeholder" which translates in Latin as "locum tenens"; or, an officer, such as the one washed ashore in a novel by John Fowles (10) |
| OARS | Paddles he leaves ashore by mistake? (4) |
| SHOAL | Sandbank or reef visible at low tide; or, an aggregation of herrings, pilchards, sardines or other fish swimming together (5) |
| FLOW | Rise of a tide; or, a steady stream of people or words (4) |
