| ESTELLA | She is, she'll inform you, in a sea of trouble (7) |
| STELLA | She'll inform you when about to return (6) |
| CONCH | Company new to Church is Shell |
| SIDEEFFECT | Unintended result of withdrawing fuel is shells in Fertile Crescent (4,6) |
| AGAINST | "... ___ a sea of troubles": "Hamlet" |
| APPRISE | Inform you the paper's to wrap one in (7) |
| AMMETER | Measurer of current force maintained by a sea of Frenchmen? (7) |
| TEACHER | "It's 'drink,' dear, in French" he informs you (7) |
| AMNESIA | Loss of memory, swimming in a sea (7) |
| ASTOUND | Surprise first of tourists in a sea passage (7) |
| PASSAGE | While away time in a sea journey (7) |
| RAKEDIN | Middleman, amid a sea of red ink, reaped the profits (5,2) |
| WAVERED | Faltered when describing a sea of blood |
| ANCHOR | Mythical Charon ___ a rock in a sea of storms (6) |
| BALLISTIC | Odds of ship coming back from port in a sea of projectiles (9) |
| CLOUD | Bit of white in a sea of blue |
| FLOATINGISLANDS | French desserts consisting of meringue in a sea of vanilla custard |
| ILE | ___ flottante (French dessert in which meringue floats in a "sea" of custard) |
| ORTO | "...___ take arms against a sea of troubles..." (part of a Hamlet soliloquy) |
| METAL | Sometimes described as a lattice in a sea of electrons, an elementary substance with good electrical and thermal conductivity, such as brass, copper, gold, silver or zinc (5) |
