Related Clues:

• Scene of puzzle provided by Erskine Childers
• Wilson's humanist seen on the beach
• Thackeray's traveller encountered on the beach
• Rids of roughness, in a way
• Smooths feature of desert
• The Goodwin - -
• Some beaches and shores?
• And the ship skirts the shore
• Rubs smooth
• Camber could be small and on one side of slope
• You may see them by sea and in ship
• Historic Vegas hotel, with "the"
• Takes the edge off?
• Metaphor for time ... and, when divided into three words, puzzle theme found in the four longest across answers
• Smoothes wood