| GREATWHITESHARK | Remarkable race, perhaps, dashes in the middle; boat and fish (5,5,5) |
| STARESAT | It has three dashes in the middle |
| ECOWARRIOR | Activist in remarkable race row round Rio (3-7) |
| HADDOCK | Owned a place to tie up a boat and fish (7) |
| LAKES | Places to boat and fish |
| WASHEDOVERBOARD | Did the laundry over the side of the boat and fell in! (6,9) |
| BERMUDATRIANGLE | Has a reputation for missing the boat and the plane perhaps in shorts with idiophone (7,8) |
| DOTS | They go with the dashes in morse code |
| ROWED | Took part in boat race, perhaps, and argued (5) |
| MOROSE | Three dashes in this code are gloomy (6) |
| DARTS | Dashes in to pub for a game (5) |
| JEROME | Author of the humorous account of a trip up the Thames in Three Men in a Boat and of a cycling tour in Three Men on the Bummel (6) |
| COX | Charlie - neat participant in boat race, perhaps |
| EVENSTEVEN | Tying in race, perhaps, in spite of landing second |
| HYPHENS | Dashes, in printing (7) |
| INTREPID | One printed dashes in bold |
| HITS | Dashes, in turn, back (4) |
| ENS | Small dashes, in printing |
| BLANKS | Flans from which coins are minted; dashes in place of obscene or taboo words; lottery tickets that fail to win prizes; or, dominoes, Scrabble tiles etc without pips or letters (6) |
| MAKESWAVES | Rocks the boat and is responsible for the aftereffects of rocking the boat (5,5) |
