| ONTHEHIGHSEAS | Where the sailor is in no lowly position? (2,3,4,4) |
| GOTDOWNTOIT | Start on that job in some lowly position? (3,4,2,2) |
| GETDOWNTOIT | Start on that job in some lowly position? |
| BABOON | According to this animal the sailor is in favour |
| TABOO | Forbidden, but the sailor is in too (5) |
| ALOFT | Where the sailor Tom Bowling has gone at the end of each verse in a folk song |
| ABROAD | Where the sailor you by may the well way find (6) |
| PORT | You're sure of a drink where the sailor comes in |
| ABINITIO | Sailor is in it with Lionheart from the beginning in Rome (2,6) |
| LOITERS | See the one having the odd rest is in no hurry (7) |
| HALFNELSON | Henry, with fellow sailor, is in the hold |
| TENTH | Lowly position of religious books during the broadcast (5) |
| LAGS | Insulates, say, the boiler but is in no hurry (4) |
| CORFU | Off Greece, it seems the French Republic is in no end of coup (5) |
| SLOW | With the sun setting, is in no hurry (4) |
| TARP | The sailor is quiet about the short covering (4) |
| OSCARWILDE | A famous playwright, the sailor is furious in custody (5,5) |
| SCARAB | Mark. the sailor, is revered in Egypt! (6) |
| ABOUT | The sailor is abroad in various places (5) |
| TAR | The sailor is the rating whose head has been turned (3) |