| NELSON | Horatio, British naval hero who lost sight in his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 (6) |
| SPILLANE | Crime writer who's in his right mind when taken drug (8) |
| MUNNINGS | Pre-eminent equestrian artist of his time, who painted such masterpieces as My Wife, My Horse and Myself and Study of Trees and Sky, despite being blinded, at age 20, by a thorny bush that struck his |
| RISK | There's a danger that this lad from Liskeard will lose his right eye, so he must have an operation on it (4) |
| EXILE | Fugitive coming from Corsica, in view of locals (5) |
| COSTARICA | Land at Corsica in a squall |
| TENEDOS | In Greek legend, the base of the Greek fleet during the siege of Troy (7) |
| CALVI | Nelson lost an eye during a siege of this Corsican seaport in 1794 |
| BENEDICTI | Pope during the siege of Rome by Lombards |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Tear? Note flicker in eye during farewell — my death wasn't what it seemed |
| OCULAR | Performed by eye during period of jocularity (6) |
| HORUS | Ancient Egyptian god in the form of a falcon whose right eye was the sun (5) |
| HORATIO | British naval hero killed in the Battle of Trafalgar, ... Nelson |
| LOOKOUTS | In their lofty stations to forestall panic, they lost sight of themselves aboard Titanic! (8) |
| CYAN | Color for the right eye of a pair of 3-D glasses |
| GATES | Horatio -, British- bom US general defeated at the Battle of Camden in 1780 (5) |
| NELSONSCOLUMN | Monument in London's Trafalgar Square built to commemorate a British naval hero (7,6) |
| STEPHENDECATUR | Naval hero who dueled with James Barron in 1820 |
| POGO | Comics character who says "Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts" |
| MISLAID | Lost sight of island in dismal conditions (7) |
