| MARINE | Belonging or concerned with the sea (6) |
| HUMANE | Pertaining to or concerned with the humanities (6) |
| OCEANOGRAPHER | Scientist concerned with the seas |
| CALORIC | Of or concerned with heat or calories (7) |
| URBAN | Relating to or concerned with a city (5) |
| CARING | Protective or concerned (6) |
| LAGOON | A shallow lake connected with the sea or a river (6) |
| ASSETS | Belongings or commodities (6) |
| UNSAFE | Having fun with the sea can become dangerous (6) |
| BEYOND | Bobby Darin song title, with "the Sea" |
| TIDING | Moving with the sea, row in a touch |
| KERCHSTRAIT | Only body of water connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov, known to the Romans as the Cimmerius Bosporus (5,6) |
| EGYPTIAN | Belonging or pertaining to the land of the Pharaohs (8) |
| ROOTS | Radices anchoring plants; or, one's ancestry, belonging or origin (5) |
| MURDOCH | Iris, winner of the 1978 Booker Prize with The Sea, the Sea (7) |
| BOSPORUS | The ---, a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (8) |
| UNSELFISH | Letters in Sun - mischievous or concerned for others? |
| WHITEELEPHANT | Impractical, expensive belonging or project (5,8) |
| FITTINGIN | Belonging or conforming, especially after adjustment (7,2) |
| ISLAMIC | Belonging or relating to Muslims (7) |
