| AMAIN | Old nautical word meaning "immediately at full speed" (5) |
| BUCKO | Old nautical word for young man (5) |
| ASAP | Initials meaning "Immediately!" |
| AVAST | Nautical word meaning "stop!" (5) |
| SCOPE | Nautical word for the slack left in an anchor's cable allowing a ship to move with the tides (5) |
| ASTERN | Nautical word meaning behind or towards the rear of a ship (6) |
| ASHORE | Nautical word meaning towards the land from the direction of the sea (6) |
| TIDY | Tiddley - nautical word meaning neat and ___ (4) |
| BUSK | A stay or strip of whalebone in a corset; the bodice so stiffened; or, a nautical word meaning "cruise about, tack, go from place to place, seek", hence "go about town performing" (4) |
| STEEVE | A nautical word meaning compress and stow cargo in a ship's hold; or, to incline upwards to the horizon (6) |
| MAINBRACE | Old nautical support in macabre play (4,5) |
| LARBOARD | Old nautical term meaning 'port' (8) |
| FATHOM | Old nautical measurement equal to six feet. (6) |
| NINA | First in an old nautical trio |
| SEXTANT | Old nautical instrument remaining after last of bids (7) |
| LEAGUE | Old nautical measure of length equalling three miles (6) |
| YARE | Nimble and seaworthy, in old nautical parlance |
| ONTHESPOT | Immediately at the scene of the action (2,3,4) |
| KIWI | One who's known in Wellington immediately at first? (4) |
| FROMTHEWORDGO | Immediately at the beginning (4,3,4,2) |
