| GONDOLAS | Traditional Venetian boats; or, the baskets of hot-air balloons (8) |
| GONDOLA | Traditional Venetian boat; or, a type of aerial lift used to transport skiers to slopes, similar to a cable carA (7) |
| PANNIERS | Point the Persian out, carrying the baskets (8) |
| CHAMPERS | Local wine for the first course with baskets of seasonal food (8) |
| FLOTILLA | Group of small boats or ships (8) |
| TABLING | Word for the taking of baths; rowing in clumsy boats; or, the art of, or material for, creating barrels, baths, broad bulky boats, buckets or butts (7) |
| SCUTTLES | Baskets of small molluscs |
| OARS | Poles with spoons or blades for propelling shells, sculls or fine boats; or, the rowers using such (4) |
| PONTOON | A float of a seaplane; a bridge of boats; or, the game vingt-et-un (7) |
| OARAGE | Blades, sculls, spoons, sweeps and other accoutrements collectively required for propelling boats; or, the pulling or stroking motion of said paddles, when rowing (6) |
| GUNWALE | The top of the side of a boat or the topmost plank (7) |
| GORES | Triangular or tapering fabric sectors forming flared skirts, hot-air balloons, parachute canopies, sails or umbrellas (5) |
| AFT | To the back of a boat or the tail of a plane? (3) |
| RIGGING | Cordage that supports a ship's masts/sails or joins a hot-air balloon's basket to its envelope; or, aerial apparatus for a flying trapeze (7) |
| RIPCORD | Mechanism for releasing a parachute from its pack or for opening a hot-air balloon's envelope, causing the latter to descend (7) |
| DUEL | In a ridiculous approach to an 1808 dispute, two Frenchmen in love with the same ballerina agreed to a ___ in hot air balloons (Monsieur de Grandpre shot LePique's balloon, sending him -- and his copi |
| BASKET | A woven "canasta"; a virtual shopping cart; a hot-air balloon's gondola; a group of currencies; or, a netted hoop in which to dunk a ball (6) |
| BALLAST | Any substance used in ships or hot-air balloons to make them heavier and more stable (7) |
| TURBULENCE | Phenomenon experienced much less by hot air balloons than by airplanes |
| SKY | Where hot-air balloons fly |
