| FIRSTSEALORD | The professional head of the Royal Navy (5,3,4) |
| STAFF | The professional head of the armed forces in the UK holds the office of Chief of the Defence ... |
| CNO | Professional head of the U.S. Navy, initially |
| LORDHIGHADMIRAL | Titular head of the Royal Navy (4,4,7) |
| UPROAR | United professional heads two from Arsenal in a row (6) |
| ROYALMARINES | An arm of the Royal Navy whose motto is 'Per Mare, Per Terram' (5,7) |
| 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 |
| INPROPORTION | Of the professional section relatively speaking? |
| PLAYFORMONEY | Gamble on what the professional dramatist has to offer? (4,3,5) |
| DOITYOURSELF | Don't get the professionals in! (2,2,8) |
| BOYCE | Composer of the music to Heart of Oak, the official march of the Royal Navy (5) |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| FLEETAIRARM | The aviation branch of the Royal Navy (5,3,3) |
| RANGE | It's the scope and age of the Royal Navy that matters |
| WRENS | What is the colloquial name for female members of the Royal Navy? (5) |
| HENRYVIII | England's "Father of the Royal Navy" |
