| ANTARCTICOCEAN | Seas around the southernmost continent (9,5) |
| ANTARCTICA | Containing the geographic South Pole, the southernmost continent, a desert and coldest place on Earth (10) |
| FLYINGDUTCHMAN | Ghostly ship said to sail the seas around the Cape of Good Hope (6,8) |
| EDOMITES | Descendants of the biblical Esau who lived south of the Dead Sea around the 13th century BC; later known as the Idumaeans (8) |
| COLDFISH | Unemotional type is familiar with the seas around The Artic presumably (4,4) |
| EASES | Calms rough seas around the point |
| UKASE | There's a Tsarist edict concerning the sea around the United Kingdom (5) |
| AEGEAN | Sea around the Cyclades |
| SNAIL | Slow mover one will put to sea around the North (5) |
| TIERRADELFUEGO | An archipelago off the southernmost tip of South America, across the Strait of Magellan (6,3,5) |
| MULLOFGALLOWAY | The southernmost point of Scotland (4,2,8) |
| DABS | Common flatfish that live on the sandy bottoms of the shallow seas around Northern Europe (4) |
| KOLA | Russian peninsula, the seas around which are noted for holding many salmon (4) |
| ASSES | Fools cavorting in wild seas around Spithead |
| RACHEL | "The Sea Around Us" author Carson |
| BALTIC | Run out of lubricant in the sea around Scandinavia (6) |
| MANXSHEARWATERS | Birds cut into the sea around Mona |
| PENTLANDFIRTH | The plan, drift at sea around northern strait (8,5) |
| SALINE | Salty as the stormy sea around some liners |
| DISMISSAL | Mislaid at sea around ship? You get the sack (9) |
