| OARSMAN | Upsetting Romans, a rower (7) |
| MANACLE | Roman a clef captures slave's restraint (7) |
| SILENTF | Roman a clef's surprise ending? |
| PUDDLES | Disturbances made by a rower's oar blades pulled through the water (7) |
| BENCH | A bink, pew, scamble, settle or other long form; a rower's thwart in a boat; a judge's seat; a platform upon which to exhibit a dog at a show; or, a stout worktop, such as a potting table in a greenho |
| STROKE | Real or figurative motion that links a genius, a golfer, a lucky person, a painter, a rower and a swimmer (6) |
| TRIBE | One of the "three" phyles of the ancient Romans; a people or clan claiming a common ancestor; or, a group in the classification of animals (5) |
| STRETCHER | A frame for elongating a painter's canvas; a gurney/litter; a rower's footboard; an umbrella rod; or, a lie (9) |
| IDES | For Romans, a day that is short |
| MARE | To the Romans, a sea horse? (4) |
| WALNUT | Introduced to England by the Romans, a tree with kernels used for coffee cakes, brownies, quiches, warm salads or for pickling, Juglans regia (6) |
| CAUGHTACRAB | A for a fisherman; F for a rower |
| CLEF | Roman a -; French term for a novel in which real people are depicted under assumed names (4) |
| PRIMARYCOLORS | Roman A clef about Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign |
| ONTHEROAD | Classic Beat Generation roman a clef |
| THWART | Word meaning to foil, frustrate, oppose or prevent; to place crosswise; to cross the path of; or, as a noun, a rower's bench placed across a boat (6) |
| OAR | Long wooden pole with a broad, thin blade at one end / a rower |
| SCULL | A racing shell propelled by a rower or rowers pulling two oars (5) |
| PUDDLE | Circular disturbance on the surface of water made by the blade of a rower's oar at each stroke; or, a curtain's surplus fabric spilling onto the floor (6) |
| CRAB | Seafood (that can be caught by a rower?) (4) |
