| MESSMATES | Confusion by sailors who are fellow consumers (9) |
| PROS | Sailors who are not amateurs (4) |
| FACTORS | The agents are fellow-performers (7) |
| ALLUREMENTS | The lot of you are fellows from back street temptations |
| ARGONAUTS | Sailors who went exploring for a sheepskin (9) |
| ABOLISHED | Got rid of sailor who scattered oil on hut (9) |
| MACARTHUR | Ellen, British sailor who broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2005 (9) |
| NARRATING | Managed to return with a sailor who was telling the whole story (9) |
| GARBLE | Cause confusion by putting rooftop into roof end (6) |
| RIOT | Wild or violent disorder, confusion by a number of persons |
| THE | Eliminate confusion by removing the smoke screen (5,3,3) |
| CLEAR | Eliminate confusion by removing the smoke screen (5,3,3) |
| AIR | Eliminate confusion by removing the smoke screen (5,3,3) |
| PUTOUTOFGEAR | Throw into confusion by changing into neutral? (3,3,2,4) |
| DAYS | Time of confusion, by the sound of it |
| ADDLE | Create confusion by removing cover from seats (5) |
| STAINED | Tainted saint thrown into confusion by journalist (7) |
| CONSTERNATION | I thrown into confusion by things (13) |
| MATELOTS | Sailors who have many relations? (8) |
| BIAS | I meet some sailors who show prejudice (4) |
