| HEARTBREAKER | Surfer's last into warm wave - a fickle one |
| ERASE | Ease around surfer's last wipeout (5) |
| CHAMELEONS | Fickle ones |
| THRESH | From an agricultural term meaning beat, flail or tread grain out of corn, a word for a thwack of chastisement; a violent movement of a wave; a struggle in water; a fast exciting race; a loud party; a |
| SURGE | Based on the Latin "to rise", a word used in its early sense to mean a fountain or stream, later a big wave, a billowing cloud, a sudden increase of power or a rush of emotion (5) |
| TUBE | Old word for a telescope; slang word for a television; the hollow under the crest of a breaking wave; a container for oil paint, tomato puree or toothpaste; or, a pipe (4) |
| SEA | A thalassic expanse known informally as the briny; a great wave; a large lake; the tide; turbulence or swell; a lunar mare; or, with the definite article, a sailor's maritime career (3) |
| APARTMENT | Separate out some workers, at last, into a penthouse (9) |
| BRIGANTINE | Huge one going last into saltwater vessel |
| SNUGGLE | Settle into warm position |
| UNASSAILABLE | Woman's having trouble fitting into warm coat that's stormproof? |
| WOMB | Finally blow into warm club providing cosy environment |
| COMBER | A long sea wave; a gaper fish; a wool-carder; or, a type of mudlark given to gathering beach jetsam (6) |
| FAME | "A fickle food upon a shifting plate": Dickinson |
| CAPE | A matador might wave a red one |
| HANDKERCHIEF | A Real Madrid supporter may wave a white one in protest |
| IDLES | Does Little Nell last into the 15th? (5) |
| MOTOR | Drive out at last into the open country (5) |
| DUNGEONS | Nudes go down last into dark cells |
| LEAVE | Will takes canoe at last into Wash (5) |
