| ROCKSALT | Music on the boat synonymous with The Cellar (4,4) |
| RINGWORM | Call and get back a bit of music on the line - it gets under your skin (8) |
| COXSWAIN | Firm and cross with young lover, poetically speaking, on the boat (8) |
| RAPMUSIC | Strike songs synonymous with the beat on the street (3,5) |
| BOARDING | Planks for getting on the boat (8) |
| ALLATSEA | Everyone on the boat is bewildered |
| ARIZONAN | Turns up grandmother from Australia joined paramilitaries - with one of those from the city synonymous with The Rising? (8) |
| FRESHAIR | New tune, synonymous with the atmosphere that will blow the cobwebs away (5,3) |
| PAYPHONE | Settle the bill for Penny to improve old communications unit synonymous with The Street (8) |
| HOSEPIPE | Heroin from South American capital served up at address with ecstasy and something synonymous with the hookah (8) |
| DIARISTS | Turns up, Sally got awards at university with a number of writers synonymous with the Daily Record (8) |
| BASILISK | From the Greek meaning "little king", a mythical reptile synonymous with the heraldic cockatrice (8) |
| STARSIGN | Is Grant's doctor synonymous with the twins? (4,4) |
| SWANSONG | Ultimate performance of number synonymous with The Children of Lir (4,4) |
| CASANOVA | Renowned 18th Century Italian whose name remains synonymous with the art of seduction |
| MADHOUSE | Rodent going around had travelled from residence synonymous with the Tea Party (8) |
| BROADWAY | Location synonymous with the American theatre (8) |
| SPAMMERS | A couple of Frenchmen in Press Box synonymous with The Mail no one wants (8) |
| UNICORNS | Mythical white monoceroses synonymous with the extremely rare beasts that are start-up companies worth at least $1bn (8) |
| PROP | It'll hold up the right music on the piano (4) |
