| ROOMINESS | Moon rises, adrift in near-emptyness of space |
| EAST | Where the moon rises |
| VOID | Emptyness |
| TREATMENT | Method of handling team adrift in river (9) |
| FLOTSAM | Much primarily adrift in edges of foam? |
| BLIGH | William, captain of The Bounty cast adrift in 1789 (5) |
| HEADFIRST | He's adrift in panic having gone in precipitately |
| ARALSEA | Are, alas, adrift in marine waters of USSR (4,3) |
| DESERT | Holds it in readiness, adrift in Egyptian expanse (5,6) |
| SINAI | Holds it in readiness, adrift in Egyptian expanse (5,6) |
| CELESTE | Mary ____, ship mysteriously found adrift in the Atlantic in 1872 (7) |
| CAPES | Garments adrift in space? |
| SPANISHMAIN | Adrift in his sampan in the Caribbean Sea (7,4) |
| MANITOBA | Male adrift in a boat somewhere in Canada |
| MUTINY | - of the Bounty; incident when commander William Bligh was set adrift in an open boat by his own men (6) |
| HENRYHUDSON | Man set adrift in James Bay in 1611 by his mutinous crew (5,6) |
| FRENCH | Adrift in the first place, tie it away somewhere up in Europe (6,4) |
| ALPS | Adrift in the first place, tie it away somewhere up in Europe (6,4) |
| KINROSS | Sink or swim at first adrift in old borough south of Perth (7) |
| MARIECELESTE | Abandoned ship in an Arthur Conan Doyle short story, based on one found adrift in the Atlantic (5,7) |
