| RANK | Captain or ensign |
| RATING | Ordinary seaman or ensign without money |
| BANNER | Flag or ensign (6) |
| ANCIENT | A flag, standard or ensign (7) |
| STANDARD | A flag, banner or ensign (8) |
| SKIP | A buoyant hop; a builder or house clearer's giant bin; a Trinity College servant; a curling captain; or, a "frizzly on the tongue" melting KP "crisp" (4) |
| KANGAROO | Captain or joey |
| BELL | Word with captain or curve |
| HOOK | Fictional captain, or his metal hand |
| LEADER | Captain or coach |
| NEMO | Captain or a fish |
| SKIPPER | Boat captain, or friend of Gilligan |
| CAPTOR | Captain or kidnapper? (6) |
| CORNCOB | Captain or sergeant, perhaps, with bomb's original pipe material (7) |
| FLAG | An oblong, square or triangle of bunting as a vexillary emblem, ensign, signal or standard; a yellow iris; a bushy tail; or, from the Old Norse for "slice of turf", a flat slab or paving-stone (4) |
| UNITE | "Oneness" in the form of an association of workers; a coupling for pipes; an esemplastic device on an ensign, flag or jack; a students' club; a textile woven from a combination or fusion of fibres; or |
| PENNON | From the Latin meaning "feather", the tapering ensign of a medieval knight-bachelor; or, a flag or streamer attached to a lance (6) |
| FLAGPOLE | A staff upon which a burgee, colours, ensign, standard or other vexillum is displayed, flown or hoisted (8) |
| JACK | A leather or iron-plated medieval tunic; a ship's flag, smaller than the ensign; a sailor; or, a knave in cards (4) |
| IGNORE | Pay no attention, in fact, to an ensign, or even a lieutenant (6) |
