| ENTS | Creatures that went, topless, on top of the sand (4) |
| OILMEN | Well, workers work topless on top of topless warning (6) |
| DUNE | The result of some of the sand unearthed! (4) |
| ASKS | Requests to sunbathe topless on square (4) |
| EWER | More fresh to go topless on vessel (4) |
| JOHN | Jordan's precursor went topless after 8 9 11 (4,3,7) |
| SHELLHOLE | One of the big guns made this impression coming out of the sand on the golf course (5,4) |
| CHILDERS | Erskine. author of the 1903 novel The Riddle Of The Sands (8) |
| EACHOTHER | Reciprocating, mum goes topless on topless beach (4,5) |
| ERSKINE | Author of 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands (7,8) |
| OSTRICHWALK | Get your head out of the sand - it's Original Dixieland Jass Band's 1917 release (7,4) |
| SATIN | Stuff it back, putting most of the sand round it (5) |
| WISED | ___ up (got one's head out of the sand) |
| WISINGUP | Getting one's head out of the sand |
| AGUTTER | Jenny, actress who played Clara Dollmann in the 1979 film The Riddle of the Sands (7) |
| IBIZA | In the same place Liz is topless on a Spanish island (5) |
| ENTRY | Those from gentry are seen topless on the way in (5) |
| PERSIA | Adventure, Prince of...: The Sands of Time (6) |
| SAHARA | Where the Marathon des Sables ("Marathon of the Sands") is run |
| RIDDLE | 'The --- of the Sands', novel by Erskine Childers (6) |
