| HENRYHUDSON | Man set adrift in James Bay in 1611 by his mutinous crew (5,6) |
| BOUNTY | Ship from which William Bligh was set adrift by his mutinous crew (6) |
| HATFIELD | Town in Hertfordshire, site of a Jacobean courtier's house built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, with gardens designed by John Tradescant the Elder (8) |
| BLIGH | HMS Bounty captain who navigated some 4,000 miles to Timor after his mutinous crew set him adrift (5) |
| DUKEOFMILAN | Title usurped from Prospero by his brother Antonio in Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) |
| MUTINY | - of the Bounty; incident when commander William Bligh was set adrift in an open boat by his own men (6) |
| CHARTERHOUSE | Public school in Surrey founded in London in 1611 (12) |
| OCEANIA | A canoe I set adrift in Pacific region (7) |
| LANTERNS | Objects set adrift in lakes and rivers during the Hungry Ghost Festival |
| COMESTO | Regains consciousness being set adrift in lake |
| THIRSTED | Longed to be set adrift, in part (8) |
| OBTAINED | Got set adrift in boat with journalist (8) |
| MOOSE | River in northern Ontario which empties into James Bay |
| RIVER | James Bay hit from 2014, Hold Back the ----- (5) |
| ANAPAEST | Stories the old man set out in a bit of poetry (8) |
| ENHANCE | Swell man set up winning service, interrupted by news (7) |
| HECTIC | Very busy man set up computer systems in cricket club |
| NURMAHAL | Wife of Mughal emperor Jahangir from 1611 until his death in 1627 (3,5) |
| ARIEL | '[A]iry spirit' commanded by Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611) |
| DRAPERY | Old man set up in dilapidated Derry clothes shop (7) |
