| TARTARIC | Two sailors I caught being sort of acid ... |
| ONICE | Individual cases I caught being delayed |
| PARASYMPATHETIC | Being sort of nervous could make chap pray at times (15) |
| LED | Came first, being sort of light |
| ROSEATE | Got up and had breakfast, being sort of pink? |
| INDIGO | At home, do no gardening, perhaps, being sort of blue |
| NUDITY | Undress, being sort of untidy (6) |
| VENETIAN | Being sort of blind, he may hardly notice the streets are so wet! (8) |
| IDIOTIC | One point I caught - just one caught, being stupid |
| IMPATIENT | I am glaring - one caught being restive |
| OFFICERS | Members of police one caught being taken in by bribes? |
| CORNISH | Sailors I found in club describing long British coastline (7) |
| BURNISH | Polish sailors I encountered in the outback |
| BIAS | Sailors, I find exhibit such prejudice (4) |
| TURNIP | For our sailors, I possibly put out something to eat (6) |
| BASIC | Sailors, I see, can be seen to be fundamental |
| AMINO | Aren't I almost sort of acid? |
| ACETIC | Self-denying person losing last touch of saintliness becomes sort of acid |
| PRUSSIC | Sort of acid acceptable around most of vast country |
| ABIDING | Enduring memory of sailor I had found at home at midnight (7) |
