| LAKENYASA | Body of water in Central Africa at the southern end of the Great Rift Valley, also called Lake Malawi (4,5) |
| NYASA | Lake ---, southward extension of the Great Rift Valley also called Lake Malawi (5) |
| CWM | Welsh term for a bowl-shaped valley also known as a cirque or coombe |
| LAKEALBERT | Body of water between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda in the great Rift Valley |
| LAKECHAD | Body of water in north central Africa, at the junction of four countries (4,4) |
| LAKEVICTORIA | Body of water in central Africa that is the chief reservoir of the River Nile (4,8) |
| LAKETANGANYIKA | Body of fresh water in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the longest and second-largest of its kind on earth (4,10) |
| CHAD | Lake located in west-central Africa at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger (4) |
| GALILEE | Sea of ___, body of water in Israel also called Lake Tiberias (7) |
| REDSEA | Body of water in the Great Rift Valley |
| SERENGETI | National park west of the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania (9) |
| THUN | Lake ___, body of water in central Switzerland formed by a widening of the Aare River (4) |
| APATHY | Lack of interest in a passage at the end of The Great Gatsby (6) |
| WILLIAM | Battled with the Conqueror, we hear, at the end of the Great Glen Way! (4,7) |
| FORT | Battled with the Conqueror, we hear, at the end of the Great Glen Way! (4,7) |
| LUCY | Name given to an Australopithecene skeleton found in the Great Rift Valley, the world's most famous hominid fossil (4) |
| SEAOFGALILEE | Lake in Israel through which the River Jordan flows, also called Lake Tiberias |
| KRYLENKO | The Soviet People's Commissar for Justice, Nikolai, who was executed himself towards the end of the Great Purge (8) |
| RUDOLF | Lake ... in NW Kenya is also called Lake Turkana (6) |
| TURKANA | Lake --- in N.W. Kenya is also called Lake Rudolf (7) |
