| HELMS | Tillers or wheels by which ships' rudders are controlled |
| HELM | Steering gear / a tiller or wheel by which a ship's rudder is controlled |
| AXLE | A pin or rod in the nave of a wheel by which it turns (4) |
| ASWAN | Nile River floods are controlled by a major dam near which city? (5) |
| WATERWAY | A canal, river, or narrow channel of sea which ships or boats can sail along (8) |
| RATES | A clock's gains or losses in a unit of time; classes into which ships were assigned; or, a property tax |
| SLIPWAY | Incline on which ships are launched (7) |
| PURSERS | Which ships' officers are charged with keeping accounts, etc (7) |
| AVANTI | Sporty antique wheels by Studebaker |
| LIMO | Wheels by the red carpet |
| PERSON | One selling wheels by ton - small for time being |
| CARRIONCROW | Scavenger wheels by city with cap getting back to front (7,4) |
| RISK | Game in which armies are controlled with dice |
| NERVECENTRE | Place from which an organisation's activities are controlled (5,6) |
| PUPPET | A person whose actions, ideas, etc., are controlled by another |
| FLOCKSOFSHEEP | They are controlled by crooks (6,2,5) |
| POLICED | In case nits are controlled by laws (7) |
| RANKANDFILE | Ordinary people that are controlled by castle |
| SIGNAL | ____ box, a building beside a railway track from which points are controlled (6) |
| UNINTENTIONAL | They are controlled by crooks (6,2,5) |
