| WELLKEPT | Trim wet kelp up, limiting length (4-4) |
| SADNESS | Sailors send a signal up limiting distress (7) |
| SILENCER | Sincere about limiting length of exhaust attachment (8) |
| SEAWEEDS | Kelp and Irish moss |
| ALGICIDE | Jelly about substance from kelp |
| STARFISH | Known collectively as a galaxy or a constellation, a marine echinoderm inhabiting a coral reef, rock pool, seagrass meadow or kelp forest (8) |
| SEAWEEDY | Kelp-covered |
| SEAOTTER | Floating on its back, this northern Pacific marine mammal inhabits kelp beds and opens mollusks by smashing them on a stone balanced on its chest. (3,5) |
| EPISTLES | What St Paul wrote of kelp oddly dismissed at first by the French (8) |
| WHIPCORD | Ribbed cloth traditionally used to make riding breeches or jodhpurs; twisted string for lashes; or, kelp with fronds reminiscent of the latter (8) |
| COCKALEEKIESOUP | Delicacy made from cookie and kelp sauce (4-1-6,4) |
| ALGA | Photosynthetic organism such as kelp or Chlorella (4) |
| DYKE | Muddy kelp in centre of dam (4) |
| BEDS | Garden plots for roses or vegetables; kelp forests; layers of oysters or mussels; or, shakedowns, bunks, truckles, four-posters etc (4) |
| KILN | Oven for firing pottery, drying hops/malted barley, annealing glass, heating limestone or, traditionally, burning kelp (4) |
| SEALACE | Brown spaghetti-like kelp, also called bootlace weed, dead man's rope or mermaid's tresses (3,4) |
| ALGAE | Pond scum and kelp |
| IODINE | Kelp is rich in it |
| ARAME | Kelp used in Japanese cuisine |
| NUTTYPROFESSOR | With 'The,' Julius Kelp, in a 1963 movie |