### Clue: Old craft displayed by great striker keeping City up (3,5)
### Answer: ARK ROYAL 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Old craft
 **Reversal of**(… up, in a down clue) [LARA(Brian, a Trinidadian international cricketer, acknowledged as one of the greatest strikers/batsmen) **containing**(keeping) YORK(city in England)].
Defn: The first of ships so-called was the flagship of the English fleet which fought the Spanish Armada.