| TUGOFLOVE | Something that shifts vessels from nil employed in parental dispute (3,2,4) |
| GEARLEVER | Stick that shifts in a car? (4,5) |
| STAVANGER | Port vessels from East supplied with incense |
| IRONCLADS | Strengthened vessels from old cairns tidied up (9) |
| DELFTWARE | Vessels from Holland draw fleet out |
| BROADSIDE | Nautical term for the entire side of a vessel from stem to stern and from waterline to rail (9) |
| CAPILLARY | Vessel from small island carrying post (9) |
| TOPFLIGHT | Superior's hasty departure on vessel from the east |
| OURSELVES | Oh, you are, I hear, a different vessel from the lot of us (9) |
| ATHWART | Conflict that shifts from one side to the other (7) |
| ARGOSIES | Antonio's vessels from ancient city that is to south (8) |
| ANCHORS | Devices that prevent vessels from moving (7) |
| PRANG | Did course in parental guidance, producing an accident (5) |
| MOTHEROFPEARL | Nacre is in parental relationship to Union (6-2-5) |
| BANKOFMUMANDDAD | Rental provider in parental? (4,2,3,3,3) |
| DST | Period that ends Nov. 3rd, requiring a shift, and letters that shift in this puzzle's theme entries |
| EPICENE | Piece that shifts northeast is common to him and her (7) |
| WORKS | A factory that shifts gradually out of position (5) |
| REVERSE | Uno card that shifts the direction of play |
| UNLOADS | Lauds heartless organisation for a change, that shifts goods |