| GOODSAMARITAN | How sad! To find at a mooring, only one who will come to your aid! (4,9) |
| LIFESAVER | Something that comes to your aid at a critical moment (9) |
| ADAGES | How sad! To age and talk of old sayings! (6) |
| TRUSTEE | Legal guardian who will come to rue test results (7) |
| BERTHS | Ties up at a mooring in retirement, for example (6) |
| MOUSETRAP | Computer device, back part - they say if you build a better one, the world will come to your door! (9) |
| DRYEYES | They may be hard to find at a tearjerker |
| CIDERS | Drinks that may be hard to find at a bar? |
| SMOKEDFISH | Drove fast (if returning, be quiet!) to find something to eat (6,4) |
| JEROME | Boatman in Paris (capital!) to find a boy (6) |
| ERGOT | Go, father! Go! To find what is wrong with the rye (5) |
| SAVEONESBACON | Put aside your earnings to come to your rescue (4,4,5) |
| SHADOWCABINET | Political group who will come out with biased cant (6,7) |
| GRAPNEL | Device with a multiple hook at one end attached to a rope which is thrown over a mooring to secure an object (7) |
| UPTHEREAR | Educate at that place a rebel leader who will come last (5,2,3,4) |
| BRING | Educate at that place a rebel leader who will come last (5,2,3,4) |
| JESTS | Robert, at the end, had to start to find a mooring (5) |
| TIEUP | A link; a business connection; a traffic jam; a mooring; an entanglement or knot; or, tape for bookbinding (3,2) |
| RKELLY | Indicted musician who said: "Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through" |
| LAYBY | A type of hard shoulder, pull-off, rest stop or verge; a railway siding; or, a mooring area along a canal or other narrow waterway (3-2) |
