| EXXONVALDEZ | Oil tanker that ran aground in the Gulf of Alaska in 1989 |
| EVERGIVEN | Container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal in 2021 (4,5) |
| KODIAK | Gulf of Alaska island |
| ANCHORAGE | Largest city of Alaska, in the south at the head of Cook Inlet (9) |
| RUSSIA | Seller of Alaska in 1867 |
| AMOCO | ___ Cadiz, oil tanker that ran aground off Brittany in 1978 (5) |
| BRAER | Oil tanker that ran aground near Sumburgh Head, Shetland in January 1993 (5) |
| TORREYCANYON | Oil tanker that ran aground off Cornwall in 1967 (6,6) |
| VALDEZ | Oil tanker that struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989 (5,6) |
| EXXON | Oil tanker that struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989 (5,6) |
| CONCORDIA | Costa ___, cruise ship which ran aground in the Tyrrhenian Sea in 2012, killing 32 crew and passengers (9) |
| STRANDED | Ran aground, in the main, and was left helpless (8) |
| LAKEONTARIO | Great sheet of water where oil tanker's adrift, with nought but Australian on board (4,7) |
| PRINCEWILLIAMSOUND | Stretch of water in which the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989 |
| HAITI | Modern-day locale of the place where the Santa Maria ran aground in 1492 |
| SUPERTANKER | Oil tanker |
| PERSIANGULF | Pal refusing to swim where oil tankers travel frequently (7,4) |
| TORREY | Supertanker that ran aground between Land's End, England and the Scilly Isles in 1967 (6,6) |
| CANYON | Supertanker that ran aground between Land's End, England and the Scilly Isles in 1967 (6,6) |
| ENDEAVOURREEF | Coral bank where Captain Cook's ship ran aground in 1770 |
