| NADIRS | Drains designed to reach the lowest depths (6) |
| NADIR | Drain designed to reach the lowest point |
| ATLANTIC | Its lowest depth is the Milwaukee Deep |
| ABYSS | Lowest depth |
| APPROACH | In golf, a shot from the fairway designed to reach the putting green (8) |
| BOTTOM | It is out to reach the lowest state and hit to fall into the worst circumstances (6) |
| BOTTOMOUT | What one getting to moon must have to reach the lowest point |
| HITBOTTOM | Husband with frayed mitt and boot gets to reach the lowest point (3,6) |
| PLUMB | ___ the depths, reach the lowest possible level (5) |
| BALBOA | Vasco Nunez de ---, Spanish explorer and the first European to reach the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean in 1513 (6) |
| NANSEN | Fridtjof, Norwegian explorer who tried to reach the North Pole on the ship Fram in the 1890s (6) |
| HEAVEN | Lift to north to reach the sky (6) |
| UDDERS | They hang between the legs to reach the calves (6) |
| HITROCKBOTTOM | Reach the lowest ebb (3,4,6) |
| PLUMBTHEDEPTHS | Reach the lowest level (5,3,6) |
| TOWEROFBABEL | Edifice designed to reach Heaven (5,2,5) |
| NORGAY | Sherpa mountaineer born Namgyal Wangdi who, with teammate Edmund Hillary, was the first human to reach the summit of Mount Everest (6) |
| AUSTIN | Bunny ---, the last British person to reach the Wimbledon men's singles final until Andy Murray did so in 2012 (6) |
| CLIMAX | Brief ascent with short cut to reach the top (6) |
| ZENITH | Religion finding it hard to reach the top (6) |
