| INDIAMAN | Merchant sailing ship, such as a tea clipper |
| CLIPPER | Fast sailing ship, such as the Cutty Sark (7) |
| WINDJAMMER | A large merchant sailing ship |
| WHALER | A ship such as the Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick |
| GALLEON | Ship such as The Golden Hind (7) |
| ARMADA | A fleet of ships such as the stormravaged example sent by Philip II to overthrow Elizabeth I in 1588 (6) |
| EDWINFOX | The world's second oldest surviving merchant sailing ship, located in Picton (5,3) |
| TRADERS | Ships such as deal in shares (7) |
| CUTTY | - Sark; preserved in Greenwich as a memorial to the Merchant Navy and monument to the age of sail, the last surviving tea clipper, once the fastest ship of her time (5) |
| CUTTYSARK | British tea clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 and now preserved as a museum ship at Greenwich, London (5,4) |
| TEACLIPPER | A 19th-century merchant sailing vessel designed for speed (3,7) |
| NILGIRI | The --- Hills is a plateau in Tamil Nadu, India, noted as a tea-growing district (7) |
| STEEPED | Immersed, as a tea bag |
| STEEPS | Soaks, as a tea bag |
| STEEP | Brew, as a tea bag; precipitous |
| PARTIALECLIPSE | Sail tea-clipper in a storm when sun can be obscured |
| SARK | Cutty _; last remaining British tea clipper ship (4) |
| SLOGANS | Register article in ship - such things get people's attention (7) |
| ASSAM | 1985 movie starring Deborah Kerr as a tea garden manager's widow, The ___ Garden |
| CHAMOMILE | Composite plant with apple-scented foliage, used medicinally and as a tea (9) |
