| LIFELINE | Rope attaching a sailor to a boat, or one originally used to send signals to the water's surface by a diver (8) |
| ROW | Take a laboring 4D to power a boat (or one orderly line of cornstalks) |
| WAKE | The track left on the water's surface by a ship (4) |
| LABORIOUS | It's strenuous for dog or one originally out with us (9) |
| BLEEPS | Short high tones to send signals (6) |
| ENSIGNS | Junior officers had two ways to send signals (7) |
| UPLINK | A transmitter on the ground that sends signals to a satellite (6) |
| TRANSMIT | Mike in Ford van to send signal (8) |
| TILLER | A lever attached to a boat's rudder for steering; the stock of a crossbow; a cultivator or plough; or, a sapling (6) |
| SKEWER | A brochette or shish on which to impale food while it is being barbecued, grilled or roasted; a pin with some other function, such as attaching a wheel to a bike; or, a pin-like tactic in chess (6) |
| TURRET | Either of two brass or steel loops on a horse's harness through which driving reins pass; or, a ring on a dog's collar for attaching a lead or chain (6) |
| FOB | Chain attaching a watch to a waistcoat pocket of the same name; or, a decorative key ring tab (3) |
| COOLFORCATS | This song's lyric starts "The Indians send signals / From the rocks above the pass" |
| OARLOCK | What is the American name for the device attached to a boat's gunwale in which the oar swings? (7) |
| TENDON | A cord of fibrous tissue attaching a muscle to a bone or other structure (6) |
| STATIC | ____ line, one attaching a parachute pack to an aircraft so that the parachute opens after falling (6) |
| BASALT | Rock the sailor to a degree (6) |
| LANDLUBBER | Non-sailor, to a sailor * (10) |
| RAFT | Artist on the paper takes to the waters (4) |
| SEAWORTHY | Rate showy construction as ready to take to the waters (9) |
