| DOWSER | One who plunged in water or used another way |
| STONES | Whether dazzling in rings, found in cherries, skipped across water or used to mark graves, they are rocky or hard articles with cobbled specimens known in French as "paves" (6) |
| EGRET | Bird plunged in water gets up |
| BOBDOLE | Campaigner who plunged over a poorly mounted railing at a 1996 rally |
| EMMA | Dales killer who plunged off a viaduct (4,6) |
| BARTON | Dales killer who plunged off a viaduct (4,6) |
| DEEBLISS | Neighbour who plunged into the sea on the day she married Toadie Rebecchi (3,5) |
| EAU | Beauty in water or water in beauty? (3) |
| SCALDED | Removed inedible parts of fish, putting in pinch of dill, and plunged in hot water |
| SEDAN | Some used another course to show a car |
| EQUAL | The same English queens used another language, initially (5) |
| TRANSLITERATED | Radiant settler managed and used another alphabet (14) |
| SECONDHAND | Used another assistant (6,4) |
| TABLEWARE | Crockery, etc, fit to be plunged in bubbly water |
| ERIE | A Canadian lake - before one plunged in |
| PORRIDGE | A dish made from oatmeal or another cereal, cooked in water or milk to a thick consistency (8) |
| PADDLER | One walking in water or propelling a canoe (7) |
| POLENTA | Yellow or white Italian cornmeal cooked in water or stock (7) |
| PLOWTER | Scots term, to work or play in water or mud (7) |
| ALGA | Unicellular or multicellular organism occurring in water or moist ground (4) |
