| LEESHORE | Potential danger spot for a ship |
| BERTH | Parking spot for a ship |
| PROW | Spot for a ship's figurehead |
| DOCTOR | An old word for a teacher; slang for a ship's cook; a cool sea breeze in a warm country, thought conducive to health; a surgeonfish; a "sawbones" known to the Anglo-Saxons as a leech; brown sherry; or |
| LIONSDEN | Danger spot survived by Daniel (5,3) |
| EVACUATE | Leave danger spot (8) |
| PITFALL | Danger spot |
| THINICE | Literal and metaphorical danger spot |
| LANE | A narrow often rural road; or, a division of a waterway or airspace as a route for a ship or a plane (4) |
| RAPIDS | River areas possibly indicating danger spots initially (6) |
| GARDENIA | Bloomer that's a potential danger to a bit of a liar (8) |
| PORT | From the Latin for "haven" or "harbour", a city or town's anchorage; or, a word among mariners for a ship's left side, opposite starboard (4) |
| GOLDMINE | Source of great wealth, or a potential danger (4,4) |
| HAZARD | Has, say, a road potential danger? |
| KNOTGARDEN | Clump is potential danger for designer lawn (4,6) |
| DECK | Word originally for a canvas cover for a ship, later used to denote the aforesaid vessel's floor (4) |
| CABOOSE | An old word for a ship's cookhouse, galley or kitchen; or, in the US, a guard's van or cabin on a train (7) |
| STERN | Word for a ship's aft, poop or rear; a dog's tail; or, a person's bottom (5) |
| CAPN | Contraction for a ship's leader formed by a synonym for "lid" + N |
| NAVIGATE | Plot (a course for a ship or plane) |
