| RIGGING | Cordage that supports a ship's masts/sails; or, aerial apparatus for a flying trapeze (7) |
| CUTAWAY | A tapering morning, newmarket or tail coat; a drawing or "exploded view" showing interior workings; a shot or scene that deviates from a movie's action; or, a flying trapeze trick (7) |
| MAST | It supports a ship's sail |
| AIRLINE | Publicise the route needed for a flying concern (7) |
| AIRPORT | Where to go for a flying visit? (7) |
| TRAPEZE | Acrobat's aerial apparatus (7) |
| FRIGATE | Formation of masts, sails, etc, in large European ship (7) |
| YARDARM | Either end of a spar on a ship's mast (7) |
| JETFUEL | Propellant for a flying fighter |
| LEOTARD | '. . . the Flying Trapeze' guy |
| FORETOP | Platform around a ship's mast |
| RIG | A costume or outfit; a CB transmitter and receiver; or, a boat's distinctive configuration of masts, sails, tackling etc (3) |
| RAGS | Scraps or oddments of cloth for making rugs and dolls, curling the hair or cleaning; informal word for tabloids; sails or tattered clothes; or, herds of colts (4) |
| RACK | Toast-holder; Shakespearean word for a flying cloud; set of antlers; or, a horse's "single-foot" gait (4) |
| TROMPE | Catalan forge's apparatus for a blaring bugling blast of air; or, a "l'œil"-deceiving illusion style (6) |
| WINDMILL | A building with sails or vanes generating power to grind grain into flour; or, a toy whirligig or pinwheel, suggestive of said aerogenerator (8) |
| TRUCK | Word for a barter, chore, collection of odds and ends, exchange, market-garden vegetables of the US or a Scottish deal, but also a barrow, bogie, cap atop a ship's mast, jazz dance, lorry, railway wag |
| STAY | Guy rope bracing a ships mast; or, part of a corset that was historically constructed from whalebone (4) |
| STELMOSFIRE | A luminous region that sometimes appears around church spires and ships' masts, caused by atmospheric electricity (2,5,4) |
| PTERODACTYL | Common name for a flying reptile of the late Jurassic; from the Greek for 'wing finger' (11) |