| TIDEWAY | With a code of practice for rowing and paddling, a stretch of the Thames where the Boat Race traditionally takes place (7) |
| STANDARD | One of the codes of practice for bear on a road (8) |
| ETHOS | Code of practice observed in Somerset hospital (5) |
| POLICY | Code of practice (6) |
| ETIQUETTE | Code of practice broken by tutee (IQ nearly ten!) |
| OAR | A pole with a blade used for rowing and steering a boat by leverage against the water |
| ISIS | Name of Oxford University's reserve rowing crew at the Boat Race; or, a local name for the Thames (4) |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| RULE | Word for a graduated strip of metal or wood; a code of religious life; a principle of conduct or procedure; or, a standard of estimation (4) |
| OMERTA | Head off home right away, at first, to deal with a code of silence (6) |
| DOGMA | Deity returns to parent with a code of beliefs (5) |
| MAFIA | Group with a code of silence |
| AMA | Org. with a code of ethics |
| THEME | The central idea of the talk is "A Stretch of the Mediterranean" (5) |
| SKIFF | A small light boat adapted for rowing and sailing (5) |
| OARS | Long, wooden poles with broad thin blades at one end for rowing and steering boats |
| PROTOCOL | Word for the first glued-on leaf of a manuscript originally, now a code of behaviour, etiquette or p's and q's (8) |
| AKHARA | Place of practice for martial arts; also a convent or monastery, especially of ascetics (6) |
| JACKHIBBERD | Which Australian playwright wrote Dimboola (1968) and A Stretch of the Imagination (1972)? (4,7) |
| DORNEY | Eton - ; name used during the London 2012 Olympics for the lake near Windsor Castle that hosted rowing and canoeing events (6) |
