| CLIFFDIVES | Daring leaps into the ocean, as made famous in Acapulco (2 wds.) |
| BUNGEEJUMP | Daring leap off a bridge with a cord attached (2 wds.) |
| SALTO | An officer in very daring leap (5) |
| ATSEA | Out on the ocean, as a ship: 2 wds. |
| SALTIMBOCCA | Italian dish which translates as "it leaps into the mouth" |
| SHOOTSUP | Leaps into the air when hot soup's spilt (6,2) |
| ATLANTIS | Lost civilisation that sank beneath the ocean as the result of an earthquake, according to Plato |
| THEENTERTAINER | Piano piece written in 1902, made famous in 1973 when used as the theme music for a film set in the 1930s |
| WAVE | Breaking, spilling, plunging, surging or collapsing, a ubiquitous feature of the ocean as a result of the wind or seismic activity (4) |
| PARANORMAL | One who leaps into the unknown with standard mystic (10) |
| SPALPEEN | That Irish rascal leaps into the pen! (8) |
| ONSHORE | Moving away from the ocean, as a breeze |
| LAMER | This French song, made famous in English as Beyond The Sea sung by Bobby Darin, shares the name of an orchestral piece by Debussy (2,3) |
| TONGA | (comprising 169 islands) in the southern Pacific Ocean, as in the cultivar of New England aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii) (5) |
| JUMPS | Leaps into the air |
| RABBIT | Small burrowing animal whose leap into the air is called a binky (6) |
| JUMPOFF | Take a flying leap into the horse display final (4,3) |
| PASSION | Mel Gibson made famous in film 'The ___ ___ ___ _ of the Christ' |
| HAIM | One of "The Two Coreys" made famous in the '80s |
| BARACKOBAMA | He tossed a lei into the ocean off Oahu in August 2008 in memory of his mother, who had died years earlier |
