| FACEPAINT | Rounding cape at sea, pale colour on one's cheeks etc (4,5) |
| RICEPAPER | Rounding Cape at sea, more ready to eat delicate stuff? (4,5) |
| BLOOM | A flower; a rosy colour; a healthy glow on one's cheeks; a fine powdery coating on chocolate, grapes or plums; or, a rapid seasonal flourish of algae (5) |
| LIPPY | Colloquialism meaning cheeky, chopsy, loquacious or mouthy; "rouge a levres" for imparting colour on one's bouche; or, coincidently referring to an osculation/kiss, the fourth part of a Scottish peck |
| FACEPACK | Cream treatment applied to cheeks etc (4,4) |
| ROSY | Red, of cheeks, etc. |
| STEAMER | Vessel's master, at sea rounding Cape at last (7) |
| NILEGREEN | Coming from Eire, Glenn found pale colour of river (4,5) |
| FLUSHED | Illness cast off, colour in one's cheeks? |
| ACCESS | Expert on ship rounding Cape makes admission (6) |
| SCYLLA | Rounding cape, friend's repelled sea monster |
| ACCOST | Approach expert on ship rounding Cape (6) |
| CATSUIT | Item worn with cape at clubs, say |
| DEZHNEV | Russian Cape at the easternmost mainland point of Asia (7) |
| FAREWELL | Cape at the southernmost point of Greenland (8) |
| SKAW | Cape at the northern tip of Denmark (with "The") |
| FINISTERRE | Cape at the westernmost point of Spain |
| EPOCH | Hope abandoned rounding Cape for a time (5) |
| PACY | Fleet needs to caulk seams rounding cape |
| EARPIERCING | Shrill tart in sleeper, perhaps rounding cape |
