- CAPTAIN
- Team leader
- First word of each * answer
- Skip
- Team leader, perhaps
- Nemo or Ahab
- Superhero, with 52 Across
- Rank that goes with the first parts of the answers to starred clues
- Ship's leader
- With 37-Across, title for the hidden individuals in 16-, 23-, 46-, and 58-Across, thanks to the circles in each answer?
- Command, as a cutter
- Army officer.
- Hornblower's rank.
- Jinks or Nemo
- Ahab or Nemo
- Hook or Cook
- Hook or Bligh
- Abraham Lincoln, in a Whitman poem
- ___ America
- With 3-Down, one of the Avengers
- Queeg's rank
- Kangaroo or Blood
- Kangaroo's title?
- Military leader
- Kangaroo or Hook
- Ahab or America
- Bridge head
- One with multiple mates
