| ISSYKKUL | A lake in north Kyrgyzstan; second-largest mountain lake in the world (5-3) |
| QINGHAI | It's the largest mountain lake without a river outlet in Central Asia. |
| ERIE | A lake in North America |
| ONTARIO | Remarkably not a river in Spain but a lake in North America (7) |
| TITICACA | Highest navigable lake in the world, in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru (8) |
| SUPERIOR | What is the largest freshwater lake in the world? (8) |
| VICTORIA | Largest tropical lake in the world |
| ONEGA | Large lake in north-west Russia (3,700 sq miles), the second largest lake in Europe (5) |
| ARAL | ___ Sea (environmentally-destroyed lake in the former Soviet Union whose Wikipedia page is written in the past tense; 50 years ago it was the fourth-largest lake in the world) |
| TIANSHAN | This mountain system's name means "Celestial Mountains." It stretches for about 1,500 miles (2,500 km) from west-southwest to east-northeast between China and Kyrgyzstan and bisects the ancient territ |
| ARALSEA | Lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that was formerly the fourth largest lake in the world (4,3) |
| LAKEONEGA | Lake in north-western Russia; the second-largest in Europe (4,5) |
| TAHOE | Freshwater lake in North America, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the California- Nevada border (5) |
| TANGANYIKA | Longest and second deepest freshwater lake in the world, it is a boundary for Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Zambia (10) |
| DEADSEA | Lowest lake in the world, in SW Asia on the border between Israel and Jordan (4,3) |
| CASPIAN | As panic breaks out in the largest lake in the world (7) |
| NESS | Loch ---, a deep freshwater lake in North Scotland, in the Great Glen (4) |
| ILMEN | Lake in north west Russia drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga (5) |
| GREAT | ___ Lake in north west Canada is drained by the Mackenzie River into the Arctic Ocean (5) |
| SLAVE | - - Lake in north west Canada is drained by the Mackenzie River into the Arctic Ocean (5) |
