| FIRESHIPS | These vessels were used, famously, to scatter the Spanish Armada fleet in August 1588 (9) |
| VSIGNS | Gestures used famously by Winston Churchill and Harvey Smith, in different forms |
| NAVY | Armada, fleet (4) |
| DEGREES | Gee, left Greg to scatter the seed according to the temperature |
| DISPERSE | To scatter the red spies around (8) |
| STRAW | Starts to scatter the rough animal bedding (5) |
| FROBISHER | Sir Martin, the maritime explorer who played a major role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada (9) |
| FANTASTIC | Amazing little worker in fleet's in charge (9) |
| ARKROYAL | Flagship of the English fleet in 1588 battles with the Spanish Armada (3,5) |
| DRAKE | Francis ___, navigator who was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 (5) |
| GALLEON | In the 1588 confrontation between the Spanish Armada and the Royal Navy, both sides mostly used which type of ship? (7) |
| FRANCISDRAKE | Elizabethan navigator who was vice admiral of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 (7,5) |
| EWERS | The vessels were sailing to the point (5) |
| REVENGE | The ?, Alfred Tennyson poem about Sir Richard Grenville and the 1591 Battle of Flores with the Spanish fleet in the Azores (7) |
| BEARD | When Sir Francis Drake burned part of the fleet in Cadiz in 1586 he was said to have singed this part of the the King of Spain's physiognomy |
| STREW | Scatter the last of the pepper in the ragout (5) |
| BREAK | In snooker, the opening shot with the cue ball that scatters the placed balls (5) |
| FRANCIS | 16c English navigator who commanded a fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 (7) |
| BOWLS | Sir Francis Drake was said to have finished playing this lawn game before engaging the Spanish Armada in 1588 |
| SPANISHARMADA | Great fleet defeated in the Channel by English fleets in 1588 (7,6) |
