| FLAG | Panic on the high seas: The Jolly Roger was a ___ flown by pirate ships that struck terror in the hearts of merchant ship crews |
| JOLLYROGER | Black-and-white flag flown by pirate ships (5,5) |
| FOUND | Discovered Roger was not in the foreground (5) |
| LOVE | Romance on the high seas The ___ Boat |
| SCARECROW | Jeepers creepers! A terror in the eld? For the birds! (9) |
| REDCAP | Bird liable to inspire terror in the ranks? (6) |
| RIOTING | Terror in the streets |
| ASTAIRE | The "he" in "Rogers did everything he did ... backwards and in high heels" |
| DRAPER | Victorian classicist who studied at the Royal Academy, his paintings include By Summer Seas, The Lament for Icarus, Pot Pourri and The Vintage Morn (6) |
| ANAPHOR | Word or phrase referring back to a previous one, e.g. the he in my father said he called (7) |
| ROE | US Supreme Court decision that struck down abortion laws in Texas and across the rest of the nation, |
| THOMAS | Will Rogers was at his best as a small-town fellow who had to deal with a variety of eccentric and pompous characters in Doubting ... |
| BOARDWALKS | And at the beach to avoid this but could be on pirate ships for a watery grave (10) |
| STAMPEDES | Runs off in a panic on seeing Dee with the collectors' items (9) |
| EMPIRE | The dominion that struck back in the second Star Wars film |
| DORIAN | The hurricane that struck the Bahamas, causing the country's worst natural disaster |
| ASH | 72 people died in the ... Wednesday fires that struck Victoria and South Australia in 1983 |
| LIMP | Left by the little terror in need of a stiffener (4) |
| EDINBURGH | ___ of the Seven Seas, the optimistically named main settlement on Tristan da Cunha (9) |
| SCIMITAR | Short, curved sword like those wielded by pirates in modern day re-enactments of the many attacks along Mallorca's coastline that took place during the 16th century (8) |
