| FLOTSAMANDJETSAM | Floating or washed ashore objects |
| FLOATINGDEBRIS | Floating or washed ashore objects |
| FLOATINGWRECKAGE | Floating or washed ashore objects |
| LAGAN | Floating or washed ashore objects |
| FLOTSAM | The bobbing, drifting or washed-up wreckage or cargo of a ship, hence discarded objects, drifters, odds and ends or vagrants (7) |
| CLEAN | Word meaning delicate, neat or small originally, later fresh, pure, unsullied or washed, hence honest or morally uncontaminated (5) |
| DRIFTWOOD | Wood floating near or washed up on shore (9) |
| KITE | The graceful "Milan royal", gliding and soaring on thermals; or, named after said bird of prey, a floating or flying toy/object, such as the rokkaku designed for aerial combat (4) |
| JACKOLANTERN | The phosphorescent light of the will-o'-the-wisp or ignis fatuus, "foolish fire", seen floating or hovering at night over marshy ground, whose name in question transferred to a candlelit pumpkin, carv |
| NATANT | Floating or swimming |
| JETSAM | Discarded objects washed ashore (6) |
| DRIFTWEED | Aquatic vegetation washed ashore by the tide or wind |
| PELLETS | Floating or sinking dry food for pond-reared young fish (7) |
| MIRAGE | An optical illusion, appearing as a floating or shimmering image like water on the horizon (6) |
| LIEUTENANT | Word for "placeholder" which translates in Latin as "locum tenens"; or, an officer, such as the one washed ashore in a novel by John Fowles (10) |
| CASTUP | More and more actors are washed ashore (4,2) |
| WRACK | Seaweed washed ashore (5) |
| SEAHORSE | Marine creature washed ashore in the South-East |
| LILLIPUT | Where Gulliver was washed ashore when shipwrecked on his first voyage (8) |
| AMBERGRIS | Warning signal - rigs struggling - material washed up ashore? (9) |
