| JACOBITE | Old rebel giving sailor a kick, we hear (8) |
| ABSTAIN | Refrain from giving sailor a dirty look (7) |
| ICEANCHOR | Reported claim of captain destroying enemy ship -- something giving sailors security? (3,6) |
| HEREWARD | Ambassador gets prize for old rebel (8) |
| ACADEMIC | Possibly don church vestment mostly worn by old rebel |
| MUSCADET | Wine and grape juice impressing old rebel |
| WATTYLER | Old rebel leader, terribly disheartened, left in rain? |
| ABSTRUSE | Obscure sailor, a good man with a strategy (8) |
| PORTHOLE | It can give the sailor a sea view (in Hull?) (8) |
| WATERRAT | Drink with retiring sailor - a little furry fellow who's a good swimmer (5,3) |
| NAUTILUS | From the Greek for "sailor", a marine mollusc whose name originally referred to the floating argonaut octopus, wrongly believed by Aristotle to use its tentacles as sails (8) |
| MATELOTE | From French for "mariner-style" and "sailor", a stew of freshwater fish cooked with beurre manie, bouquet garni, pearl onions and wine (8) |
| NORSEMEN | Northern soldiers and sailors a-wandering (8) |
| SEADOG | A Jack tar, old salt, pirate or sailor; a white rainbow as seen by a mariner; an antiquated word for a shark or a seal; or, a heraldic beast in the form of a talbot with a beaver's tail (3,3) |
| HEREWARDTHEWAKE | Old rebel, man with bounty attached, cut during capture (8,3,4) |
| OKAYED | Agreed to old rebel being given a hearing (6) |
| EXTEMPORISE | Ad-lib of old casual worker (old rebel) |
| TRAITOR | It's characteristic of old rebel, initially, to be a turncoat (7) |
| ANARCH | Old rebel who initiates drugs bust in a hospital? (6) |
| ICENI | Old rebel fighters took in a police night patrol (5) |
