| RANGTHECHANGES | Used a variety of methods, as one knowing the ropes? |
| BYTRIALANDERROR | A way of problem solving by using a variety of methods (2,5,3,5) |
| OLDHAND | Ex-crewman one knowing the ropes? (3, 4) |
| MODES | Methods, as of transportation |
| YACHTSMANSHIP | The art of knowing the ropes? (13) |
| CYNIC | According to Oscar Wilde, one knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing |
| ELEGIST | Point to one knowing the law, a reflective writer |
| ERNIEWISE | Eagle absorbs one knowing the comic (5,4) |
| BELLRINGER | One of those knowing the ropes in church? (4,6) |
| DEADRINGER | You'll be 21 with him, as one who no longer knows the ropes? (4,6) |
| LANYARD | What a sailor wears if he knows the ropes? (7) |
| LASSOER | A cowboy who "knows the ropes" ? (7) |
| TYING | Knowing the ropes around the jetty in Gisborne (5) |
| HITFORSIX | Stun - knock over the ropes? (3,3,3) |
| PETEACHERS | H.S. instructors who show you the ropes? |
| RODEOS | Events for those who know the ropes? |
| RINGER | Some player in Germany who knows the ropes? |
| NUTSANDBOLTS | Securing devices, the ropes? (4,3,5) |
| RIGOR | Hardship of a person in charge of a ship's ropes? |
| BACKDOOR | The sort of methods that will offer no opening to the men at the front! (4-4) |
