| DOCTORFAUSTUS | "The face that launched a thousand ships" comes from this Christopher Marlowe play |
| RAGUSA | "Argosy", as a name for a large merchant ship, comes from this former name for Dubrovnik |
| GREENPEACE | The environment is always on tenterhooks when their ships comes in! (10) |
| HELEN | She had 'the face that launched a thousand ships' |
| HELENOFTROY | She had "the face that launched a thousand ships" |
| FACE | Marlowe asked, of Helen of Troy, "Was this the... that launched a thousand ships?" |
| TAMBURLAINETHEGREAT | Christopher Marlowe play about an Asian conqueror (11,3,5) |
| DIDO | "___, Queen of Carthage" (Christopher Marlowe play) |
| ELEANOR | Rigby who "waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door" |
| SALIVARY | ____ glands, organs on the side of the face that generate lubricating fluid in the mouth (8) |
| APHIS | When a ship comes in, a garden suffers (5) |
| SAGA | Japanese Imari porcelain comes from this prefecture on the island of Kyushu |
| PANPIPES | Music comes from this plumbing behind the basin (3-5) |
| ISRAEL | The martial art of Krav Maga comes from this country (6) |
| CALF | Veal comes from this part of the leg (4) |
| IROQUIAN | The word Canada originally comes from this native language |
| AMOS | His face "launched a thousand chips," per his bio |
| MARINER | NASA space programme that launched a series of probes to investigate Mars, Mercury and Venus from 19 |
| CANNON | Bygone big gun that launched a huge stone or ball at the enemy's wall |
| NATE | ___ the Great (1972 kids book that launched a series) |
