| FLEETAIRARM | The aviation component of the Royal Navy (5,3,3) |
| FLEET | ____ Air Arm, aviation component of the Royal Navy (5) |
| WHITEENSIGN | Flag of the Royal Navy (5,6) |
| HIPPOCAMPUS | Component of the brain named after its resemblance to a seahorse (11) |
| ARABIA | John Johnson-Allen from Great Moulton wrote T. E. Lawrence and the Red Sea Patrol: The Royal Navy's Role in Creating the Legend about the role of the Royal Navy in creating the legend that was Lawrenc |
| BOYCE | Composer of the music to Heart of Oak, the official march of the Royal Navy (5) |
| FIRSTSEALORD | --- --- --- and Chief of the Naval Staff, title of the military head of the Royal Navy (5,3,4) |
| SPLENDID | HMS ___, name of four ships of the Royal Navy, the last of which, a submarine, was decommissioned in |
| RENOWN | HMS ___, name of eight ships of the Royal Navy, the last of which was a Resolution-class submarine launched in 1967 and paid off in 1996 |
| ADMIRAL | ___ of the Fleet, highest rank of the Royal Navy (7) |
| AIRBUS | Main European rival of Boeing within the aviation industry |
| SPITHEAD | Area of the Solent where sailors of the Royal Navy mutinied in 1797 (8) |
| OAK | Sacred to Roman god Jupiter, a tree in the genus Quercus whose use in shipbuilding inspired David Garrick's line in a song used as the official march of the Royal Navy (3) |
| LASH | "The traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the _": Winston Churchill (4) |
| RANGE | It's the scope and age of the Royal Navy that matters |
| WREN | Formerly, member of women's branch of the Royal Navy (4) |
| GROUNDSTAFF | They are not high-fliers in the aviation industry (6,5) |
| AERO | Top-level domain for the aviation industry |
| LINDY | "Lucky" nickname in the aviation world |
| AVIOS | Loyalty point system widely used in the aviation industry (5) |
