Possible Clues:

• Coleridge character
• 'The Rime of the -- --', poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Seafarer in a Coleridge poem
• Coleridge title character
• Literary character putting old flag on space probe
• Coleridge's salt of the earth? Not exactly!
• Men certain rain will fall - one nearly died of thirst
• Coleridge's seafaring subject
• A name - name in certain rime, possibly
• Salt refused by two-thirds of guests at wedding