| CHARLESKINGSLEY | Author of The Water-Babies (7,8) |
| KINGSLEY | Author of The Water-Babies as well as the children's book on Greek mythology The Heroes and historical novels including Hypatia and Westward Ho! (8) |
| SPAWNS | The father of the water-babies? (6) |
| SWEEP | Son has to cry, seeing subject of The Water Babies |
| ELLIE | What is the name of the girl who joins Tom in the undersea world in The Water-Babies ?(5) |
| CHARLES | Author of the 1863 children's book The Water Babies (7) |
| TOM | Who is the central character in The Water-Babies? (3) |
| CHIMNEYSWEEP | Tom's job, in Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies (7,5) |
| TARRANT | English illustrator whose whimsical watercolours of delicate sprites, ethereal fairies, flowers, rosy-cheeked children, rural Surrey and water-babies can be found lending their charm to vintage Medici |
| TADPOLES | Water Babies fan sold tape (8) |
| UPTOTHEEYEBALLS | Level of the water in a really bad spring flood? |
| SAMITE | "The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering ____, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water" (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) |
| EMERSE | Of the leaves of an aquatic plant, rising above the surface of the water (6) |
| HYDROGEN | Some of the water on the top of the table is the first one you'll see (8) |
| EAUDENIL | Pale pastel-green hue named for its supposed resemblance to the colour of the water of the river credited as the world's longest (3,2,3) |
| SPRINGER | Water - the last of the water - for the dog (8) |
| REEF | Ridge of rock / coral / sand lying at / near the surface of the water |
| AQUARIAN | According to the zodiac, a person born under the sign of the Water Bearer (8) |
| SKIPJACKTUNA | Fish that jumps out of or swims close to the surface of the water (8,4) |
| REEFS | Ridge of rock, coral or sand lying at or near the surface of the water / shoal |
