| JOHNPAULJONES | Recent pope's introduced judge to US navy commander |
| JOHN | Recent popes (4,4) |
| TRUFFAUT | Pope introduced to tense film director |
| SIXTH | Like the most recent Pope Paul among all popes named Paul |
| XVI | The most recent Pope Benedict |
| FORE | Toward the bow, to a navy commander |
| ADMIRALRANGE | Navy commander in chief who supervises the galley? |
| ADMIRAL | Navy commander or butterfly (7) |
| YELLOWSUBMARINE | The navy commander replied... |
| ADMIRALTY | Officer brought in to desperately aid army and navy commanders (9) |
| BOOTCAMPS | In the US, basic training stations for new recruits to the US Navy or Marine Corps (4,5) |
| ADVENTSUNDAY | Commercial US Navy tend to broadcast on 27th November? |
| HYMN | "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," for the US Navy, unofficially |
| TOMAHAWK | Cruise missile used mainly by the US Navy and Royal Navy (8) |
| SENECALAKE | Body of water in New York state used by the US Navy to test equipment such as transducers and sonar arrays and systems |
| GHORMLEY | Robert L ?, US Navy vice admiral; commander of the South Pacific Area from June-October, 1942 |
| IMPECCABLE | USS ___, minesweeper used by the US Navy during World War II originally ordered as HMS Brutus for the Royal Navy |
| BUSH | Which US president earlier joined the US Navy in 1942 as its youngest pilot? (4) |
| SEABEES | US Navy engineers (or a hint to the theme which is based on the first words of three long answers) |
| ELITE | "On March 3, 1969, the United States Navy established an ___ school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to ensure that the handful of men |
