| OLDHAND | Ex-crewman one knowing the ropes? (3, 4) |
| RANGTHECHANGES | Used a variety of methods, as one knowing the ropes? |
| TAR | Crewman one may need to pay on deck |
| CYNIC | According to Oscar Wilde, one knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing |
| ERNIEWISE | Eagle absorbs one knowing the comic (5,4) |
| ELEGIST | Point to one knowing the law, a reflective writer |
| TYING | Knowing the ropes around the jetty in Gisborne (5) |
| YACHTSMANSHIP | The art of knowing the ropes? (13) |
| BELLRINGER | One of those knowing the ropes in church? (4,6) |
| BELLRINGERS | Call lookalikes, those knowing the ropes in church (4-7) |
| TRAINED | Knowing the ropes, ran and tied knot |
| AGNOSTIC | One knowing one who has doubts (8) |
| OLDSTAGER | In pirouette do without left leg - right one knowing all the moves? |
| BRAINSPECIALIST | One knowing everything about The Crown has an ability to get into your head (5,10) |
| THEBLINDLEADINGTHEBLIND | Idiom meaning one knowing nothing follows one equally clueless (3,5,7,3,5) |
| DENOUNCE | Condemn one knowing little about British opera company |
| PRESCIENCE | Aura surrounding Conservative, one knowing what will happen in future? |
| EGIS | One knowing about law denying outsiders US protection |
| IGNORAMUS | One knowing nothing of what Signora Mussolini is concealing |
| ANARCHY | In a state one's knowing chaos |
