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Mariner heard to get enhanced justice (8)

Heard to get more equitable rating (8)

He’s spying from a distance, under cover of a tarpaulin (8)

Ref`s area all at sea? (8)

As things have been quiet for a while, I'll sum up a bit early - in about 15 minutes. I'm off to see the 'Sculpture by the Sea' exhibition, and want to get there before the crowds arrive.

I've enjoyed working through all your entries – thanks to those who contributed this week.
Touches I liked were; Buddy's 'Rafa and Sock', and his algebraic? 11, Jono's 'Exeter', Dorrien's 'Bounty man', the homophones from Chrise 16 & Tyke 21/22, FJ's Spoonerism 18, the subtractive anagrams from Jono 8, Simplesimon 17.
My short list included; Paul 2 (I preferred it to 4), Simplesimon 10 (made me laugh), Buddy 11, Aristo 23.
As this week's winner, I've chosen Aristo's quirky 23 with a definition I hadn't encountered previously (not as the full word, anyway)

He’s spying from a distance, under cover of a tarpaulin

Well done, Aristo! Your prizes are some, music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHLPP31o-JI
and history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT_MGuZlcFY
Cheers

Well done Aristo.
Thanks for hosting Mattrom - enjoy the sculptures- just messaged our daughter to go - she’s not far away.

Many thanks Mattrom and congrats Aristo, I hadn’t associated tar and tarpaulin before, nice one :-)

congrats aristo (i'm struggling to see the definition too), and thanks mattrom, also for the mention.
i particularly enjoyed the second clip. seas were "roads" long before there were roads - there are still communities on the west coast of scotland only accesible be sea (inverie on knoydart, for instance).
also many of us here probably remember thor heyerdahl's kon-tiki expedition, which was intended to show that the pacific islands could have been colonised from south america. dna technology has demonstrated this idea to be totally incorrect!

congrats to aristo and thanks to mattrom for hosting & the spot in the finals