| DISTRESSSIGNAL | Urgent call for help from a ship or aircraft (8,6) |
| SOS | Call for help from a ship |
| PLEA | In fact, had to ask for help from a couple again (4) |
| DEPTHCHARGE | Explosive dropped from a ship or aircraft to attack a submarine |
| JETTISONS | Throws from a ship or aircraft (9) |
| THREELINEWHIP | Urgent call for MPs to attend a parliamentary vote (5-4,4) |
| SOLARCELLS | Left caller distraught in urgent call for generators (5,5) |
| PESOS | Purse empty, urgent call for funds in Latin America |
| ASHORE | Where one goes to land from a ship or a horse? (6) |
| LANDS | Alights from a ship or a plane |
| JETTISON | An obsolete term for to drop from a ship or plane (8) |
| TORPEDO | A missile fired from a ship or submarine that moves under water (7) |
| SCOUT | Oxford University's equivalent of Cambridge's bedder; member of a youth association headed by Bear Grylls; a spy; or, a ship or aircraft employed for reconnaissance (5) |
| OILSLICK | Surface film, leaking from a ship or well (3,5) |
| DERIG | To remove equipment from a ship or stage set (5) |
| PROPELLER | A device with blades radiating from a central hub, rotated to produce thrust to propel a ship or aircraft (9) |
| LOG | A detailed record of a voyage of a ship or aircraft (3) |
| KNOT | What is a unit of speed for a ship or aircraft? (4) |
| EXOCET | Subsonic tactical missile, launched from a ship or submarine and travelling at low altitude (6) |
| GHOST | Secrets of the haunted house: When the goblin wanted to write a book, he got help from a ___ writer |
