| SYMONDS | Surveyor of the Navy in the Royal Navy |
| GEORGEDEWEY | The only person to have been appointed Admiral of the Navy in the US (6,5) |
| JONES | Appointed Surveyor of the Kings Works in 1613, architect who built for James I the third and final Banqueting House at Whitehall (5) |
| ADMIRALTY | Former Department in charge of the navy in Britain (9) |
| IRAN | I joined the navy in the fight with Iraq (4) |
| NORTHERN | No river attended by the navy in the Arctic? |
| RENFREW | Fewer turn up in the Navy, in short, at large town in the west (7) |
| SAILORKING | Nickname of William IV, the third son of George III who served in the Royal Navy from the age of 13 (6,4) |
| MARYROSE | Warship of the navy of Henry VIII, which sank in the Solent in 1545 (4,4) |
| LITUP | In 1937 broadcaster Lt.-Commander Thomas Woodroofe didn't mean to impugn the sobriety of the Navy when he said, "At the present moment, the whole Fleet's ..." (3,2) |
| LIT | In 1937 broadcaster Lt-Commander Thomas Woodroofe didn't mean to impugn the sobriety of the Navy when he said, "At the present moment, the whole Fleet's ... up" |
| OFARRELL | Jasper ___, Irish-American politician who was the first surveyor of San Francisco |
| FLEET | Entirety of a country's navy, in the UK commanded since March 2019 by Vice Admiral Jerry Kyd (5) |
| VYING | Contending in the navy in gunnery (5) |
| ADORNS | Decks the Navy in a sort of soda (6) |
| ADMIRAL | --- of the Fleet, an officer of the highest rank in the Royal Navy (7) |
| POLLSTER | Environmental contaminator . Surveyor of public opinions (8) |
| EARNS | Deserves to get the Navy in when sea's choppy (5) |
| NAIRN | Scotsman returns to the navy in north east Scotland (5) |
| NEAPS | Rockets left out for the navy in some tides (5) |
