Across
- 2. (7) Sounds like a portal to the weekend bird
- 4. (8) Elephants and a lee shore – neither ended well
- 5. (7) An Eastern European has much room in this little vessel
- 8. (8) Peer hint may be scrambled but no longer his brain
- 12. (6) The first task in the garden apparently
- 14. (11) To the first and highest place
- 16. (10)Bear a hand thrice for companions to the master
- 18. (6) Initially the master can shear off those glorified pursers
- 19. (8) The heart of my argument keeps the barky afloat
- 24. (5,4) A happy wee vessel
- 25. (6) Add a herb for the right hand man
- 26. (7) Hardly a chance to upset that rope
- 27. (6) The man himself, regards us upstream
- 29. (6) Two Saucy sailormen catch a tough ‘un
- 30. (7) Hardly royalty though close enough for Jack
Down
- 1. (7) I call in the horse to keep all upstanding
- 3. (10) A very deep sided sea bird
- 6. (7) A brief whale island perhaps?
- 7. (5) A hundred and ten guns with a stinger but not first rate
- 9. (11) The horn of a unicorn? For splicing a fish perhaps
- 10. (9) A company of thousands also a Queen who reigns supreme when first aboard
- 11. (9) An independent feline nation perhaps?
- 13. (8) Sounds like the gentleman does nothing but take
- 15. (9) A Spanish braggart had little to brag about in the end
- 16. (9) A foundation stone of the RN
- 17. (6) Sounds like a sail seen last evening by the French girl aboard
- 20. (3,5)A type of Jonah, needed then despised
- 21. (7) A long reach indeed to be strung up
- 22. (5) A length and in tears I hear
- 23. (9) Not a burden to shoulder, more a joy
- 28. (4) About golfing averages perhaps