| RAINBOWWARRIOR | The former fishing trawler Sir William Hardy, acquired by Greenpeace in 1978 and sunk by the French intelligence service in 1985 |
| BRENTSPAR | North Sea oil storage facility occupied by Greenpeace in 1995, campaigning against Shell’s intention to sink it at sea |
| MERRIMAC | Only American ship sunk by the Spanish in the Spanish-American War |
| NETEARNINGS | Fishing trawler's haul? |
| SPYBOATS | Some disguised fishing trawlers |
| HOOD | Cowl; 46 Across sunk by the Bismarck |
| NUCLEARPOWER | Like immediate family with exponent that's opposed by Greenpeace |
| GMO | Creation opposed by Greenpeace: Abbr. |
| RAINBOW | Greenpeace ship sunk by French intelligence officers in Auckland in 1985 (7,7) |
| WARRIOR | Greenpeace ship sunk by French intelligence officers in Auckland in 1985 (7,7) |
| BUSH | The artist (surname only) behind "Wuthering Heights" the song, released in 1978 and inspired by Emily Bronte's novel (4) |
| REPULSE | Renown-class Royal Navy battlecruiser launched in 1916 and sunk in a Japanese air attack in 1941 (7) |
| LUSITANIA | Cunard liner torpedoed and sunk in 1915 by a German U-boat, with the loss of 1195 lives (9) |
| NAIRN | Former fishing port and resort in the Highlands (pop about 10,000) (5) |
| CULLEN | Former fishing village in the north-east (pop about 1,300), a former royal burgh (6) |
| IRONMAN | Triathlon that originated in Kona in 1978 and developed into a worldseries event and global brand that sold for $650 million in 2015 (7) |
| HATTON | Ricky, trainer and ex-boxer born in 1978 and nicknamed The Hitman (6) |
| CRAIL | Former fishing village in Fife (pop about 1,600), a former royal burgh (5) |
| GREENPEACE | The group that operated the Rainbow Warrior, sunk by French secret agents in Auckland harbour |
| ACORN | Computer manufacturers established in Cambridge in 1978 and dissolved in 2015 (5) |
