| CHESAPEAKEBAY | Bordered by Maryland and Virginia, the largest inlet of the Atlantic coast of the US (10,3) |
| COMMEND | Praise the company and people admitted by MD (7) |
| MANNED | Girl received by MD supplied with staff (6) |
| STRANGFORDLOUGH | The largest inlet in the British Isles (10,5) |
| SANTACATALINA | Island off the coast of the US state of California |
| SEABASS | Food and sport fish such as the Black ------ , Centropristes striatus, of the Atlantic coast of the US (3,4) |
| CHESAPEAKE | And 12 Inlet of the Atlantic in Maryland and Virginia, US (10,3) |
| DOUBTFULSOUND | Second largest inlet in Fiordland National Park (8,5) |
| DELAWAREBAY | Inlet of the Atlantic coast of the U.S. extending inland from Cape May (8,3) |
| BAY | Inlet of the Atlantic in Maryland and Virginia, US (10.3) |
| POTOMAC | River that forms part of the borders between Washington, DC and Virginia and between Maryland and Virginia |
| GULFSTREAM | A warm ocean current flowing north-eastwards off the Atlantic coast of the US (4,6) |
| HOPE | Headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, the Cape of Good _ (4) |
| SLIGO | County on the Atlantic coast of the Republic of Ireland east of County Mayo |
| NEWJERSEY | State on the Atlantic coast of the USA whose capital is Trenton (3,6) |
| TAMPA | City on the Gulf Coast of the US state of Florida (5) |
| ALCATRAZ | Island in San Francisco Bay, site of the first lighthouse on the wt coast of the USA (8) |
| CASABLANCA | Port of the Atlantic coast of Morocco, scene of a Second World War conference (10) |
| TAUTOG | Large dark-coloured food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America (6) |
| CARAGEEN | Dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America. |
