| ARIDNESS | Lack of water as diner's getting organized (8) |
| ABSENTFRIENDS | Toast is missing - fellow diners getting upset (6,7) |
| SNIDER | Angry diners getting more sarcastic (6) |
| MILLPOND | Calm body of water, as part of a simile (8) |
| PENSTOCK | Valve-controlled sluice or pipe regulating the flow from a dammed body of water, as to a water-mill (8) |
| CATAPULT | Religious group restricting a source of water as a weapon |
| SARDINES | Fish cooked as diners required (8) |
| BLACKSEA | Poor Abe's lack of water (5,3) |
| FAHR | Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure. |
| GURGLE | Bubbling sound of water as of from a bottle (6) |
| DUCKS | - and drakes; outdoor game or pastime where the object is to skim a stone across the surface of water as many times as possible before it sinks (5) |
| SARGASSOSEA | North Atlantic body of water, as in the title of author Jean Rhys' 1966 novel Wide ___ ___ |
| REAUMUR | Which scientist gives his name to a thermometer that defines the freezing point of water as zero and the boiling point as 80? (7) |
| SERE | In need of water, as a desert |
| DROPLET | Small quantity of water, as in cloud (7) |
| NOTICE | Catch sight of water, as opposed to a solid alternative (6) |
| STREAM | What is a steady current of water, as in a river (6) |
| QUART | Amount of water as fraction, without hesitation (5) |
| EMERSION | Coming out of the water, as in the reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse (8) |
| VORTEX | What is a whirling movement, or mass of water, as a whirlpool (6) |
