| FREEFORM | Irregular sampling of reef or mudflat |
| TASTING | An event or occasion for the degustation or sampling of a range of cheeses, small dishes or wines (7) |
| SLOB | From "mud, ooze, sludge", Irish for a mudflat or mire; or, a person regarded as crude, lazy, slovenly or lacking social refinement (4) |
| AGROUND | On to or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water (7) |
| GODWIT | A wader of marsh, mire, mudflat or water meadow, whose genus, Limosa, suitably translates as "muddy" (6) |
| SHOREBIRD | Any member of the suborder Charadrii (order Charadriiformes) that is commonly found on sea beaches or inland mudflats; in Britain they are called waders, or wading birds. |
| ATOLL | Type of ring-shaped coral reef or chain of islets surrounding a lagoon (5) |
| WRASSE | A beautiful often brightly coloured percoid fish of coral reefs or tropical waters, yet its name, from Cornish or Welsh, means "old woman" or "hag" (6) |
| KNOT | Bowline, reef or figure-of-eight |
| LAGOON | Stretch of water inside coral reef or sandbank |
| STEINS | Acquired taste in sampling of these containers of beer (6) |
| FLIGHT | Sampling of small servings of different beers |
| SLOP | A mudflat (4) |
| MANGROVES | Mudflat trees |
| LATISH | A bit behind mudflat is hill, affected by erosion |
| LATHI | Long stick used in mudflat hiking |
| SCAR | A crag, low reef or sunken rock; a limestone cliff; or, a cicatrice (4) |
| GRANNYKNOT | What we tied before we joined the Scouts or Guides and learned the sheet bend, reef or bowline (6,4) |
| VERTICALTASTING | Sampling of different vintages of the same wine from the same winery |
| SKERRY | Reef or rocky island |
