| PLUG | Bung for a bath or a basin; or, a piece of favourable publicity (4) |
| STOP | A bung for a basin; or, a door chock (4) |
| BOWL | A biased orb rolled on a crown green; a cheese for skittles; a deep dish; a drinking cup; a lob in cricket; a natural basin; or, a Scots word for a marble (4) |
| SINK | Kitchen or scullery basin; or, a geological swallow hole or doline, common in karst terrain (4) |
| SHED | Word meaning "discard", as in the water of a drainage basin; or, an outhouse or hut for bikes, cattle, garden tools or potting-up plants (4) |
| SORE | In need of an ice bath or a heating pad maybe |
| SPIN | Favourable publicity angle (4) |
| GULP | Large swallow finds favourable publicity on return (4) |
| SOAP | Bar for a bath |
| STOPPER | Knot at the end of a rope to prevent it from slipping through a narrow gap; or, a bung for a bottle (7) |
| SAAR | German basin or river |
| WASHBOWL | A basin or lavabo traditionally on a stand with a ewer and other requisites for bathing one's hands or face (8) |
| SPINDOCTOR | Nickname for a person who organises favourable publicity for his or her employer, especially a politician (4,6) |
| BIRDBATH | A basin or trough for birds to bath in (8) |
| SLIPPER | Victorian style of free-standing roll-top bath; or, a general word for a house shoe, babouche, ballet pump, slide, moccasin or monogrammed velvet Albert (7) |
| PLUNGE | - pool; body of water for invigorating the body after a sauna that takes its name from a type of basin or depression at the foot of a waterfall (6) |
| SPA | Place for a mud bath or a seaweed wrap |
| OVERFLOW | An outlet for excess water in a bath or sink (8) |
| HAIRDOS | They may be shaped using basins or a dish, badly |
| SPIGOT | Small bung for a cask |
