Possible Clues:

• Sailor
• Raise pitch rating?
• Salt
• Salt, on the briny
• Being supposedly jolly, I hastily mend grate for Dr Spooner
• Informal, now mainly literary expression for a sailor
• (Jolly) sailor
• Serviceman has to raise an army, right?
• Sailor removes ecstasy from coat, facing arrest and no holiday
• One or two sailors