| PRIMERO | Perhaps The Ancient Mariner's stopping for an ancient card game? (7) |
| COLDHEARTED | Indifferent about pressman holding ancient card (4-7) |
| AIRHOLE | Leeds runner needing short short break stopping for breather? (7) |
| GLIMPSE | Proceeds awkwardly, stopping for one to turn and look (7) |
| THEOAKS | Article on old king stopping, for instance, for fillies' classic horse race (3,4) |
| PHARAOH | Said to be a fair row for an ancient Egyptian king (7) |
| DESTROY | Do away with a familiar name for an ancient city (7) |
| EDDYING | Journalist stopping for good or circulating? (7) |
| PAUSING | Stopping for a bit |
| SHANNON | Leads numerous navigators in circumnavigating ancient mariner's river (7) |
| NOAHSDOVE | The Ancient Mariner's port, for the most part, offered an olive branch to survivor of the flood (4'1,4) |
| DOGSTAR | Follow street Arab, Ancient Mariner's guide? |
| DARKAGES | Five hundred on the ancient mariner's boat at times in era of ignorance (4,4) |
| DEADINTHEWATER | Like the Ancient Mariner's ship, tide- and weather-battered (4,2,3,5) |
| ASAIL | The ancient Mariner's cry |
| ALBATROSS | The Ancient Mariner's burden (9) |
| SEAS | Ancient mariners' expression for all the oceans of the world, Seven ... |
| BREAKIN | Not completely stopping for the burglary (5,2) |
| PADDLESTEAMER | Confuses group stopping for each riverboat (6,7) |
| CIRCUS | From the Latin meaning 'ring', a word for an ancient Roman arena for chariot races and gladiatorial combats that later came to mean a travelling company of performers |
