| SEAFRET | North Sea haar, for instance (3,4) |
| SEAMIST | The 'haar' of eastern England and Scotland coasts, for example (3,4) |
| FOGHORN | Word for a booming noisemaker serving to warn sailors/ships in brume, fret, haar or mist; or, a loud bellowing voice, evocative of such a klaxon (7) |
| FOG | Known at sea as haar or fret, cloud at ground level whose similar condition, haze, contributes to a red sky at sunrise or sunset (3) |
| FRET | The true-lover's knot of heraldry; a sea fog or haar; or, one of a series of metal strips or ridges on the fingerboard of a guitar (4) |
| MIST | Was nostalgic for, we hear, a fine fog or haar (4) |
| SAHARA | As haar evaporates, desert appears (6) |
| SEAFOG | Go safe when battling haar (3,3) |
| DESERT | A haar's unusual and had reduced spreading trees here (6,6) |
| HASBEEN | Once somebody new pursues terms for North Sea gas worker |
| BELGIUM | Kingdom in North West Europe on the North Sea (7) |
| ENGLAND | Country between the Irish Sea and North Sea (7) |
| ANISEED | Chopped North Sea ide for a liquorice flavour |
| OILRIGS | North Sea drillers |
| OILWELL | One bored in the North Sea (3,4) |
| ANTWERP | New part rebuilt in North Sea port |
| FORTIES | north sea oil field Age to promote family togetherness... (7) |
| JUTLAND | 1916 North Sea naval battle (7) |
| CASPIAN | Spies infiltrated by snake from North Sea (7) |
| AGONISE | How you worry when I go to the North Sea! |