| SALTONSEA | A saline lake, in the Colorado Desert of California, flooded unexpectedly in 1905-06 (6,3) |
| COACHELLA | Annual music festival held in the Colorado Desert |
| SALTON | ___ Sea: saline lake in California's Sonoran Desert |
| SOCAL | Area bordering the Colorado Desert, for short |
| UNDERDONE | Awfully red on being found in nude, unexpectedly in raw! (9) |
| POLYNESIA | Espy a lion unexpectedly in Pacific region |
| MADEHASTE | Heads team unexpectedly, in a hurry (4,5) |
| RESURRECT | Revive and recur unexpectedly in the others |
| PHOTOBOMB | Pop up unexpectedly in someone's pic |
| SACRAMENT | Man reacts unexpectedly in religious ceremony (9) |
| MAYORALTY | Graduate meeting royalty unexpectedly in town office |
| SKIRESORT | Skirt rose unexpectedly in winter sport centre (3,6) |
| ENCOUNTER | Meet unexpectedly in French bar (9) |
| WALAPAI | A member of a North American people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona. |
| SOLDIERBLUE | 1970 Western inspired by the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory |
| SALT | To get rid of the excess ___ they swallow while feeding, giant petrels secrete a saline solution from a nasal passage |
| SALUTED | Applied a saline coating outside, you heard, and made a sign of respect (7) |
| EPSOMSALTS | Beneficial compound of magnesium and sulphate which takes its name from a saline spring in Surrey, England (5,5) |
| SHORE | Rivage or other littoral solid edge of a liquid expanse forever sculpted by a saline or freshwater wash (5) |
| BRINE | The ocean; its salty seawater; or, a saline solution in which to preserve or pickle olives, tuna or other food (5) |
