| WATERDOWN | Dilute effect of harrowing story of rabbits abandoning ship |
| WRITHE | Legal document with sources of harrowing evidence makes one squirm (6) |
| QUARTET | Group of four unruly squatters abandoning ship |
| FLICK | Word for the sudden quick movement of a fluffle of rabbits, husk of hares, jerk of the finger from the thumb, old film picture, page of a book, switch, whip, wrist or anything else (5) |
| ABBOT | Religious sailor and Anglican leader abandoning ship (5) |
| OILY | Obsequious Oscar is sly when abandoning ship (4) |
| WRESTLE | Struggle with tossing, abandoning ship (7) |
| FRECKLE | Spot female daredevil abandoning ship |
| RAT | Sailor going west or one abandoning ship (3) |
| ENEMAS | Treatments at bottom involve rejecting tedious monotony, abandoning ship (6) |
| BOOTLE | Futile, abandoning ship in Merseyside port |
| ADHERE | Bond, that fellow in a dress abandoning ship (6) |
| NAIL | Arrest snails abandoning ship (4) |
| STEER | A maiden abandoning ship's pilot (5) |
| ADAMS | Author of a tale of rabbits' survival which he set around the chalk hills of Watership Down (5) |
| WARREN | Two heads of rabbits seen in sort of a new burrow (6) |
| WATERSHIP | ___ Down, animated remake of a famous tale of rabbits with a voice cast including 5D (9) |
| WATERSHIPDOWN | Book about a group of rabbits that celebrated its 50th anniversary of publication in 2022 (9,4) |
| SCUT | Tail of rabbits, shortened (4) |
| ROOST | Last of rabbits in burrow finding a place to sleep (5) |
