| DIVINGBOARD | Flexible plank at the edge of a swimming pool (6,5) |
| LUMBAR | I hear there's some planks at the back. (6) |
| BUCKBOARD | (N Amer.) Open horse-drawn carriage with seating attached to a flexible plank (9) |
| LENGTH | Span of a horse from nose to tail as a measure of the lead in a race; or, the distance of a swimming pool from one end to the other (6) |
| SLIDINGDOOR | Space-efficient divider between rooms ... or a hint to the word at the edges of the starred clues' answers |
| LAP | Single circuit of a racetrack; a length of a swimming pool; or, the top of one's thighs when seated (3) |
| BURGESSHILL | West Sussex town at the edge of South Downs National Park, on the London to Brighton Way (7,4) |
| URBANSPRAWL | Expansion at the edges of big cities ... as exhibited in the answers to the starred clues |
| LANE | Strip of a bowling alley or. a division of a swimming pool (4) |
| WIDTH | Sideways extent of a swimming pool as a measure of the distance swum, 25m for Olympic size (5) |
| DEEP | Like the end of a swimming pool where the diving board is |
| WIDTHS | Shorter sides of a swimming pool (6) |
| DEEPEND | Part of a swimming pool(4,3) |
| DEPEND | Audibly rely on part of a swimming pool (6) |
| LAPS | Lengths of a swimming pool (4) |
| FLOAT | Lie on top of a swimming pool |
| AGUA | Contents of a swimming pool, in Guadalajara |
| SCREE | Accumulation of stone and rock at the foot of a cliff or hillside, often forming a sloping heap, and which can be recreated at the edge of rock gardens (5) |
| SEESAW | Balanced plank at a playground (6) |
| STRIM | Shear grass at the edge of a path, or against a wall - after the trade name of the powered machine (5) |