| HIGHWATERMARK | Flood water level (4-5-4) |
| OCEANSSURFACE | Water level |
| FLOW | Stream - a bit of flood water initially? (4) |
| DELUGE | River has to carry flood water (6) |
| SWARM | Flood waters back, and close! (5) |
| KNEEDEEP | Standing in flood water, perhaps, want to get in some basic essentials |
| ADAM | Second police force, in short, came back to hold back the flood waters (4) |
| WADE | Walk through flood waters |
| RECEDE | Withdraw, like flood waters |
| SUBSIDES | Abates; moderates; recedes esn- flood waters (8) |
| WEIR | A low dam built across a river to raise the water level, divert the water or control its flow (4) |
| GLASS | Tube in a steam loco cab showing the boiler water level (5,5) |
| TIDE | Reportedly connected to change in water level (4) |
| TIDAL | Subject to rises and falls in water level (5) |
| RAISEDBEACH | Sandy shore above water level (6,5) |
| EBBTIDES | Receding water level (3,4) |
| EBBTIDE | Falling water level (3,4) |
| TIDES | Changes in water level (5) |
| HIGHANDDRY | Stranded above water level (4,3,3) |
| WIER | Dam across a river to control the water level upstream; or, a V-shaped barrier of wattle hurdles or brushwood bundles as a primitive type of stationary fish trap (4) |
