| CIRCUMNAVIGATE | To sail or fly completely around (14) |
| SAILOR | Shipman's dilemma, to sail or not to sail? |
| CIRCLE | Go completely around |
| PULLAPART | Criticise everyone completely around division (4,5) |
| TURBINE | Rotary engine's short piece, spun almost completely around |
| ENVELOP | Wrap completely around |
| REVERSED | Turned completely around when verse written in red (8) |
| ENCIRCLES | Surrounds, goes completely around: -- the town |
| EYELET | An aperture, cringle or grommet for the passage of cord, lace or ribbon in a boot, corset or sail; or, one of a series of embroidered holes in broderie anglaise (6) |
| FLAP | A motion or sound of a flag, sail or a bird's wing; a hinged leaf of a table; a pet door; a loose pendant part of an envelope or a tent, for example; a large broad mushroom; or, a fluster/tizz (4) |
| CLEW | Lower corner of a sail; or, a ball of thread used to guide one through a labyrinth or maze (4) |
| RAGS | Scraps or oddments of cloth for making rugs and dolls, curling the hair or cleaning; informal word for tabloids; sails or tattered clothes; or, herds of colts (4) |
| WINDMILL | A building with sails or vanes generating power to grind grain into flour; or, a toy whirligig or pinwheel, suggestive of said aerogenerator (8) |
| BIJOU | Desirable to hoist sail - or undesirable initially? |
| FURL | To roll up a sail, or an umbrella! |
| SOAR | Word meaning to rise or fly upwards into the air, thus to increase rapidly in cost, size, volume etc (4) |
| YACHT | An expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing. |
| YACHTS | Vessels propelled by sail or power, used especially for pleasure cruising or racing (6) |
| SWEEP | Another word for the steerer of a dragon boat; a sail or vane of a windmill; or, a chimney cleaner (5) |
| SHEET | Unit of postage stamps off the press; literary word for a sail; or, a broad expanse of cloud or rain (5) |