| CORSAIR | A pirate or privateer, especially off the Barbary Coast (7) |
| BUCCANEER | Pirate or privateer. |
| PRO | A Pirate or a Buc, e.g. |
| LAIR | Hideout for a pirate or a villain |
| TUNISIA | Libya's neighbour, once part of the Barbary Coast |
| ALGIERS | Ancient port city in north Africa, home to the Barbary pirates in the 16th and 17th centuries (7) |
| MACAQUE | Short-tailed monkey such as the Barbary or Rhesus |
| SEADOG | A Jack tar, old salt, pirate or sailor; a white rainbow as seen by a mariner; an antiquated word for a shark or a seal; or, a heraldic beast in the form of a talbot with a beaver's tail (3,3) |
| ALGERIA | Barbary Coast country (7) |
| TRIPOLI | One of the Barbary States |
| LAFITTE | Jean ___, French pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico after whom a town in Louisiana is named |
| EXPIATE | Former privateer runs off to make amends (7) |
| RALEIGH | Privateer who led two expeditions in search of the fabled lost city of gold, El Dorado, and fathered three sons with Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton, including Carew, conceived in the |
| EGYPT | Country on the Barbary Coast |
| PIRATE | Plunderer on the Barbary Coast |
| WATERRAT | Mistaken name of a riverbank or "riparian" vole, which is an expert diver and swimmer, widely associated with The Wind in the Willows by extension, a boatman, pirate or sailor; or, a person who is fon |
| FRANCIS | __ Drake, English privateer (7) |
| PIRATES | Privateers |
| SEADOGS | Elizabeth I's band of swashbuckling privateers whose notable captains and explorers included John Davis, Francis Drake, Martin Frobisher, Humphrey Gilbert, Richard Grenville, John Hawkins and Walter R |
| CORSAIRS | Privateers, especially of Barbary (8) |
