| ABONETOPICK | Reason to fall out of boat one scuttled with sharp tool (1,4,2,4) |
| STROKES | What oarsmen do when they fall out of boats? (7) |
| RANCID | Off one scuttled, to the police (6) |
| CABDRIVER | Scoundrel on Thames, say, seizing prow of boat, one plying for hire |
| DST | Reason to "fall back" and "spring forward", in brief |
| LOSEGROUND | Drop reason to fall behind (4,6) |
| KIT | Equipment left to fall out of Scottish garb (3) |
| ENTENTE | Flannelette to fall out of what could be cordiale (7) |
| PROLAPSE | Medical term meaning to fall out of place |
| BALANCE | Remainder of bank split open with sharp tool (7) |
| NEEDLE | Born lazy, I dispensed with sharp tool (6) |
| NITPICKED | Found holes in up-ended can: opened with sharp tool (9) |
| SCYTHE | Brought over enough tasty clams, extracting innards with sharp tool |
| FREIGHTER | Boat, one going to war with soldiers aboard (9) |
| ROWER | Person in boat, one falling out with another? (5) |
| PRAM | The boat one will push out with the baby? (4) |
| DRAGGER | Fishing boat, one with sharp point crossing river |
| CARRACK | Old boat, one of those facilitating growth in loads of estates, say (7) |
| DINGY | Hundreds taken out of boat that's shabby |
| DRAINS | Lets water run out of boat hull (6) |
