| SEAPIG | Common name for a deep-sea echinoderm of the genus Scotoplanes |
| SCUBA | Gear for a deep-sea diver |
| FRENCHCONNECTION | Good name for a deep kissers' dating site? |
| MELROSE | Scottish Borders town's name for a deep-pink floribunda (7) |
| URCHIN | A ragamuffin or tatterdemalion; old word for a hedgehog; or, a spiny globular echinoderm of the sea (6) |
| SEALILY | A sedentary marine echinoderm of the class Crinoidea (3,4) |
| STARFISH | Five-armed echinoderm of the class Asteroidea (8) |
| GOUJON | From the name of a small goby fish, French culinary word for a deep-fried strip of breaded chicken or sole (6) |
| MARIANA | ____ Trench, a deep-sea depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean (7) |
| HAKE | A deep-sea member of the cod family, known in France as 'saumon blanc' (4) |
| BONG | Imitative word for a deep resonant sound of a big bell or tom; or, a hubble-bubble-like water pipe (4) |
| DIP | Word for a deep dive, dunk or plunge into bath water, candle wax, hummus, a pocket, sheep pesticide, the sea or anything else (3) |
| GLOW | What the "angler" on a deep-sea anglerfish can do |
| SINKTOANEWLOW | It's good news on a deep-sea mission to ___/It's bad news for an unethical person to ___ |
| OCEANBED | The place for a deep sleep? (5,3) |
| SCUBAS | Makes a deep-sea dive |
| TOMJONES | An amazing mojo? Sent for a deep-voiced Welsh singer (3,5) |
| POORI | One spelling for a deep-fried Indian bread |
| BARRANCO | Rod hurried through Colombia for a deep gorge |
| DINGLE | Another word for a deep wooded hollow or dell (6) |
