| DECLINED | Turned down, fell off and sank |
| SCUTTLED | Ran off and sank (8) |
| ALAMO | Where many a 32-Down fell in 1836 |
| NIAGARA | Ship which hit a mine and sank off Northland in 1940 while carrying a consignment of gold (7) |
| BANKHEAD | Critic John Mason Brown advised of her performance in 1937, "Tallulah ... barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra - and sank" |
| FLOUNDERED | Struggled and sank, going round Lake (10) |
| STOOPED | Raced around excessively and sank |
| HOBBIT | Took, say, cooker and sank teeth in |
| SUBSIDED | Ship took part - and sank (8) |
| SUBMERGED | Double-decker overturned, fused and sank (9) |
| FOUNDERED | Filled with water and sank (9) |
| POTTED | Looked after plants and sank snooker balls |
| TITANIC | Ship which hit an iceberg and sank in 1912 |
| LOWERED | Came into bloom after late start, and sank (7) |
| CAMEACROPPER | Arrived on a cutter, and fell off? |
| TILER | Roofer lit up and her hat fell off (5) |
| OAK | The battleship Royal ... was torpedoed at Scapa Flow in October, 1939, and sank with the loss of 800 lives |
| LERMONTOV | Russian cruise ship which ran aground and sank in the Marlborough Sounds in 1986, the Mikhail ___ (9) |
| SCAPA | The British battleship Royal Oak was torpedoed at ... Flow in October, 1939, and sank with the loss of 800 lives |
| ELPENOR | In Homer's Odyssey, the youngest comrade of Odysseus who became drunk and fell off a roof (7) |
