| PIRATEFLAG | PLA frigate is flying a standard with skull and crossbones (6,4) |
| JOLLYROGER | Pirate's flag with skull and crossbones (5,5) |
| KEEPITUP | Exhortation to one who is flying a kite (4,2,2) |
| FLAGSTAFF | Tall pole for flying a standard (9) |
| ERROR | Getting a refrigerator from a frigate is a mistake (5) |
| MOODINDIGO | Jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard and lyrics by Irving Mills |
| ENORMOUSLY | English - standard with Oxford University, and knowing a lot (10) |
| HEADHUNTED | Struck with skull (4-6) |
| CROSSBONES | Image associated with skull vexed surgeon |
| PACESETTER | One establishing standard with due respect to myself? |
| UPINTHEAIR | Uncertain where an aeroplane is flying (2,2,3,3) |
| LIFEGUARDS | Red flag is flying round end of bayou as protection for swimmers |
| FLAG | A piece of bunting with distinctive colours and a design such as a border, canton, saltire, skull and crossbones or stripes; or, a yellow iris thought to have inspired the fleur-de-lis (4) |
| TOXIC | Like a substance with a skull-and-crossbones label |
| JOLLY | And 8 Pirate flag consisting of a white skull and crossbones on a black background (5,5) |
| POISON | What the skull and crossbones is a symbol for |
| SIGEP | Coll. fraternity with a skull-and-crossbones symbol |
| POISONS | Bottles marked with a skull and crossbones |
| PIRATE | Sailor with a skull-and-crossbones flag |
| ROGER | see 1ac, Pirate flag consisting of a white skull and crossbones on a black background |
