| NYASA | Lake ?, body of water in central Africa at the southern end of the Great Rift Valley |
| LAKENYASA | Body of water in Central Africa at the southern end of the Great Rift Valley, also called Lake Malawi (4,5) |
| LAKEVICTORIA | Body of water in central Africa that is the chief reservoir of the River Nile (4,8) |
| LAKETANGANYIKA | Body of fresh water in central Africa between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the longest and second-largest of its kind on earth (4,10) |
| LAKEALBERT | Body of water between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda in the great Rift Valley |
| LAKECHAD | Body of water in Central Africa, on the border of Nigeria (4,4) |
| SERENGETI | A vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife (9) |
| CHAD | Lake located in west-central Africa at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger (4) |
| THUN | Lake ___, body of water in central Switzerland formed by a widening of the Aare River (4) |
| APATHY | Lack of interest in a passage at the end of The Great Gatsby (6) |
| REDSEA | Body of water in the Great Rift Valley |
| NIPIGON | Lake ___, body of water in central Ontario that drains into Lake Superior (7) |
| ONONDAGA | ? Lake, body of water in central New York State north-west of Syracuse (8) |
| CONSTANCE | Lake ____ , body of water in central Europe known in German as Bodensee (9) |
| WILLIAM | Battled with the Conqueror, we hear, at the end of the Great Glen Way! (4,7) |
| FORT | Battled with the Conqueror, we hear, at the end of the Great Glen Way! (4,7) |
| LUCY | Name given to an Australopithecene skeleton found in the Great Rift Valley, the world's most famous hominid fossil (4) |
| LAKELUCERNE | Body of water in central Switzerland, fed and drained chiefly by the Reuss river (4,7) |
| LAKEMANITOBA | Body of water in Central Canada which drains into Lake Winnipeg (4,8) |
| KRYLENKO | The Soviet People's Commissar for Justice, Nikolai, who was executed himself towards the end of the Great Purge (8) |
