| WOOD | Court martialled at the end of the plank (4) |
| AHAB | Literary character described as "a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans" |
| SAWMILLS | The producers of The Plank perhaps spotted by those synonymous with rumours (8) |
| BYNG | English admiral court martialled and executed in 1715 (4) |
| BREAKERMORANT | Poet court-martialled for disobeying orders in the Boer War? (7,6) |
| EDITH | Miss Cavell, British nurse court-martialled and killed by the Germans in WWI (5) |
| PIER | On which landlubbers constitutionally walk the plank (4) |
| WALK | ____ the plank (suffer a pirate's punishment) |
| STEP | Walk the plank |
| ADROPINTHEOCEAN | The end result of walking the plank doesn't amount to much (1,4,2,3,5) |
| ERICSYKES | Writer and director of the 1967 slapstick film The Plank (4,5) |
| POE | Writer of a short story that ends, "I admit the deed!-tear up the planks! here, here!-It is the beating of his hideous heart!" |
| DASHBOARD | The - plank is in front of you in the car! (9) |
| BORED | Put a hole in the plank, by the sound of it (5) |
| BULLETINBOARD | Where they put the notice concerning the slug in the plank, we heard (8,5) |
| DROPINTHEOCEAN | To walk the plank is no big deal (4,2,3,5) |
| REKCOLSENOJYVAD | Place to end up after walking the plank |
| FIRSTOFFENDER | No hardened criminal, but the earliest to walk the plank, apparently (5,8) |
| DIDYOUMISSSMEE | Captain Hook's question to the crew after making his first mate walk the plank? |
| SOUNDINGBOARD | Is it a test of public opinion getting feedback from The Plank? (8,5) |
