| ATRIGHTANGLES | Training rig that old Englishmen put up vertically (2,5,6) |
| NUEVEPLUMB | The number after ocho, lined up vertically? |
| RISER | One getting up vertically to the tread (5) |
| STIPENDS | Miners' places rise up vertically over minister's pay (8) |
| PIPER | North Sea oil rig that exploded and was destroyed in 1988 (5,5) |
| AIRTIGHT | Rig that I devised is very well sealed (8) |
| ALPHA | North Sea oil rig that exploded and was destroyed in 1988 (5) |
| KINK | Sort of leger rig that prevents line twisting (4-4) |
| ANTI | Sort of leger rig that prevents line twisting (4-4) |
| PIPERALPHA | North Sea oil rig that exploded and was destroyed in 1988 |
| THEN | Essential to both Englishmen at that moment (4) |
| COSMOPOLITAN | Well-travelled Englishmen turned up in strange location (12) |
| DENIES | Refutes that passes will cover disheartened Englishmen |
| TWENTYFVE | The French messenger brings word of the French and English dead. He mentions that four English nobleman died. How many other Englishmen were killed? |
| COWARD | Playwright who composed a song about mad dogs and Englishmen rather wittily, wrote The Vortex somewhat grittily and famously quipped that a Martini's perfection is only a wave away, towards the direct |
| LIE | In Mad Dogs And Englishmen, "In Rangoon the heat at noon is just what the natives shun; They put their scotch and rye down, and ... down" |
| RULES | Noel Coward claimed in Mad Dogs And Englishmen, "It's one of those ... that the greatest of fools obeys; Because the sun is far too sultry and one must avoid its ultra-violet rays" |
| POMPOM | Cannon for Englishmen abroad? (3-3) |
| NYE | Welsh name adopted by many Englishmen (3) |
| NOON | Coward who wrote "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" |
