| GIMBAL | Arrangement of pivoting rings that keeps navigation instruments in a horizontal position at sea or in the air (6) |
| WASHER | Flattened ring that keeps nuts secure (6) |
| ASTROLABES | Old navigation instruments |
| COMPASSES | Navigation instruments |
| GALE | Related to Old Norse meaning "mad, frantic, furious", a strong wind; a storm at sea; or, an unrelated word for a plot of land granted to a freeminer in the Forest of Dean (4) |
| LIFEBOAT | A craft designed for rescues at sea; or, a measure taken in an attempt to save a business or investor etc in figurative troubled waters (8) |
| PILOT | Word for a steersman originally, later a balloonist; an aviator; a mariner's navigational handbook for use at sea; or, a guide or leader at large (5) |
| LIER | One in a horizontal position (4) |
| LIE | Be in a horizontal position (3) |
| LAY | Put in a horizontal position (3) |
| REPOSE | Put in a horizontal position |
| LYING | In a horizontal position |
| LIES | Puts in a horizontal position (4) |
| LAYS | Puts in a horizontal position (4) |
| LEEBOARD | A form of pivoting keel that may be used on a sailboat (8) |
| BREAKER | Large type of white-crested wave at sea or one that crashes onto the shore; or, a CB radio user (7) |
| DEAD | An estimation of one's position at sea, counting the fatalities! (4,9) |
| RECKONING | An estimation of one's position at sea, counting the fatalities! (4,9) |
| POLARIS | Marine navigation instrument resembling a compass but with no magnetic needle; or, name of a mega yacht designed by Tim Heywood (7) |
| CAPSULE | Small soluble gelatin container enclosing a dose of medication / detachable closed compartment designed to hold and protect men and instruments in a rocket |
