| UPSTREAM | In the saddle, master travels against the current |
| CRAFTSMAN | Master travels over water with maiden in vessel (9) |
| PAST | So we beat on boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the ___. closing line from The Great Gatsby |
| THEGREATGATSBY | *F. Scott Fitzgerald book with the last line, "And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." |
| UPRIVER | Against the current voting system, one's put in united resistance |
| ALMANAC | At loggerheads with the fellow against the current timetable |
| BUCKTHETREND | Go against the current tendency (4,3,5) |
| EDDIES | Goes against the current trend |
| UPINARMS | Prepared to protest strongly against the current elected members (2,2,4) |
| EDDIED | Went against the current trend? (6) |
| UPWIND | Against the current (6) |
| RIDERLESS | Missing one in the saddle, as is the writer in 14 (9) |
| TROT | Horse's gait in which a rider may sit in the saddle or rise and sit according to the correct diagonals (4) |
| BICYCLER | One in the saddle, say, reportedly bids farewell to age at the end of the year |
| POSTILLION | East German in the saddle, rider on the near side |
| RIDER | The condition of someone in the saddle (5) |
| REMOUNT | Get back in the saddle to reposition the gun (7) |
| RIDE | Be in the saddle and come through the storm (4) |
| SITTINGTROT | In a ____, a horse rider stays in the saddle |
| BESTRIDING | Descriptive of the champion jockey in the saddle (10) |
