| OCEANARIUM | Centre for housing, studying and exhibiting marine creatures (10) |
| DELTIOLOGY | Hobby dedicated to studying and collecting picture postcards (10) |
| PROOFREADING | Academic admitting nothing comes before studying and checking text |
| GLASSY | Description of your friend's eyes after she's stayed up all night studying and can barely focus |
| FORGIVABLE | Can be excused for housing four in part of roof (10) |
| ALTARSTONE | Without aid for housing start getting unsettled ___ sacrifices to be made here (10) |
| ENCAMPMENT | Temporary dwellings in section of hospital for housing affected soldiers (10) |
| SIGHTSEERS | Sounds like they're looking for housing locations? No, just tourists! (10) |
| CORNERSHOP | Local late-night newsagent blocks off openings for housing over property (6,4) |
| SHELLS | Marine creatures use them for defence, humans for attack (6) |
| SPERMWHALES | Large marine creatures hunted for ambergris (5,6) |
| MERMAIDS | Name imaginary female marine creatures having women's heads and fishes' tails (8) |
| SHARKS | Marine creatures whose types include the hammerhead and thresher (6) |
| AQUARIUMS | Zoos for marine creatures (9) |
| EELS | Peep back around middle of wetland for marine creatures (4) |
| WHALES | Marine creatures whose species include beluga and humpback (6) |
| SWIM | Saw films now and then, depicting what marine creatures do |
| UNSEALS | Opens with tuna, essentially, and other marine creatures |
| LOFT | Collective noun for pigeons or a coop for housing such; a stroke causing a golf ball to rise; or, a space above a stable for hay (4) |
| PARENTING | Father making payments for housing and bringing up the kids (9) |