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I hadn't spotted T for TEMPO.
I'm still not really happy with the other one = "rotate" the letters and you get ROTHF, OTHFR etc. I don't think swapping the position of two of the letters can be described as "rotation"....
....and anyway FROTH isn't really "sea foam"!

TUT-TUT indeed - "four Ts"!

5/29 -- this looks like a straight anagram, except the fodder produces gibberish. Is there something else to it? The checking letters suggest a slang term that could vaguely work, but not as an anagram.

Also, the checking letters to 7d permit a vast number of possible solutions, but none of which can I match to the clue.

The answer to 7d is simply hidden in the clue!
5,29 is indeed an anagram: you need the old shipping forecast map (in the east)

Thanks. I'd googled the second word (among other possibilities) but somehow missed the forecast rea.

4d - "Area of sea said to be modest source of fish". I have F-E-O-S. Is it FOETORS? If so, why?

Have you spotted that there are lots of shipping forecast areas? One of them could be said to sound vaguely like a reasonable lot of fish eggs.

Thanks for the hint, Chrise. Unfortunately, the shipping forecast isn't prominently published on my side of the Atlantic.

I needed to use this link!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_Forecast

For 7d "It goes into the sea with a message inside" (6)
I've got T-A-E-
I'm assuming its THAMES but is AM really "a message"?

Any help welcomed