| PATHETICFALLACY | E.g. 'the cruel sea' or 'lonely as a cloud' (8,7) |
| LOS | Word before Alamos or Lonely Boys |
| OFFSHOREACCOUNT | The Cruel Sea possibly, just possibly, opened 3 of 25? (8,7) |
| POEMS | Ode To A Nightingale and I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud are what type of literary works? (5) |
| WANDERED | I ___ Lonely As A Cloud: poem by William Wordsworth (8) |
| WORDSWORTH | William, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud poet (10) |
| DAFFODIL | Flower in Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" |
| IWANDEREDLONELY | "___ as a cloud..." |
| MONSARRAT | Naval lieutenant commander who wrote the 1951 novel The Cruel Sea |
| PLUME | A downy aigrette, marabou or other large, ornamental or showy feather; or, something reminiscent of said panache, such as a cloud/wisp of smoke, a T-shaped white moth or a pappus of a dandelion clock |
| MANTLE | Old name for a cloak, thus a word for a covering, such as a cloud, a chimney piece, Earth's asthenosphere, a mesh bag around a gas lamp's flame or a snail's pallium (6) |
| ELSE | Different excerpt from 'The Cruel Sea' (4) |
| INNES | Hammond ___, author whose 6s include The Cruel Sea (5) |
| DAKOTAS | Billy J Kramer's backing band, had own hit with "The Cruel Sea" (7) |
| DESTROYER | Type of naval vessel featured in Monserrat's The Cruel Sea |
| SMOKE | "Ghost of a fire" manifesting as a cloud of carbon particles suspended in the air; grey tinged with blue; a woodbine or other smouldering burn; or, anything that fogs or obscures (5) |
| CLOUD | "I wandered lonely as a ..." (Wordsworth) (5) |
| FLY | Insect known collectively as a cloud; or, a tent's door flap (3) |
| SOLITARY | Is as lonely as royalist can be (8) |
| STARDUST | Cosmic particles or presolar grains remaining from supernovae explosions; distant astral bodies appearing as a cloud; biopic about David Bowie; or, romanticism (8) |
