| Bosh | 4 |
| Boat bottom | 11 |
| Worthless talk | 14 |
| Ship's seepage | 18 |
| Place for stagnant water | 24 |
| Nautical nonsense | 17 |
| Bullshit | 8 |
| Unwelcome water on a cruise ship | 32 |
| Seepage at sea | 14 |
| Part of a hull | 14 |
| Hull part | 9 |
| Codswallop | 10 |
| Unwelcome water on a ship | 25 |
| Nonsense, slangily | 18 |
| Hull section | 12 |
| Dirty water in a ship's bottom | 34 |
| Worthless talk, in slang | 24 |
| Worthless output | 16 |
| Widest part of a cask | 21 |
| Verbal rubbish | 14 |
| Stuff in leaky ships | 20 |
| Stale remarks | 13 |
| Ship's seepage locale | 25 |
| Ship's bottom area | 22 |
| Ship's area | 15 |
| Lower part of a ship's hold | 31 |
| Lower exterior part of a ship's hull | 40 |
| Leakage in a luxury liner | 25 |
| Inner hull bottom | 17 |
| Hull's lowest point | 23 |
| Hull bottom | 11 |
| Hull area | 9 |
| Cask's widest part | 22 |
| Absolute nonsense | 17 |
| Places for stagnant water | 25 |
| Water collection areas | 22 |
| Takes in water | 14 |
| Ships' seepage collection areas | 35 |
| Seepage collectors | 18 |
| Seepage collection areas | 24 |
| Hull areas | 10 |
| Areas near the hull | 19 |
| Swindle | 7 |
| Bamboozle | 9 |
| Cheat | 5 |
| Fleece | 6 |
| Defraud | 7 |
| Flimflam | 8 |
| Put one over on | 15 |
| Take to the cleaners | 20 |
| Rook | 4 |
| Chisel | 6 |
| Cozen | 5 |
| Gyp | 3 |
| Cheat (out of) | 14 |
| Fleece a comic legend? | 22 |
| Cheated | 7 |
| Cozened | 7 |
| Stiffed | 7 |
| Sergeant once played by Phil Silvers | 36 |
| Sitcom noncom | 13 |
| Silvers role | 12 |
| Army schemer of '50s TV | 27 |
| TV's scheming sergeant played by Phil Silvers | 49 |
| TV sergeant played by Phil Silvers | 34 |
| Steve Martin title role of 1996 | 31 |
| Steve Martin military role | 26 |
| Small-screen scheming sergeant of the '50s | 46 |
| Sitcom sergeant | 15 |
| Silvers's sergeant on old TV | 32 |
| Silvers' classic role | 25 |
| Silvers TV role | 15 |
| Silvers sarge | 13 |
| Silvers character of classic television | 39 |
| Sergeant of '50s TV | 23 |
| Sergeant at TV's Fort Baxter | 32 |
| Scheming sergeant on old TV | 27 |
| Scheming sergeant of old TV | 27 |
| Schemer of '50s TV | 22 |
| Role for Phil Silvers | 21 |
| Phil Silvers role | 17 |
| Fort Baxter con man of early TV | 31 |
| Fictional Fort Baxter noncom | 28 |
| Conniving sergeant of 1950s TV | 30 |
| Bane of Colonel Hall's existence, in '50s TV | 52 |
| Swindles | 8 |
| Takes for a ride | 16 |
| Overcharges | 11 |
| Fleeces | 7 |
| Defrauds | 8 |
| Takes to the cleaners | 21 |
| Hornswoggles | 12 |
| Chisels | 7 |
| Takes to the cleaners, so to speak | 34 |
| Pulls a switcheroo on, perhaps | 30 |
| Beak | 4 |
| Bird's beak | 15 |
| Tab | 3 |
| Folding money | 13 |
| Tab on the table | 16 |