| NYASA | Large stretch of water in south-east Africa (about 11,400 square miles (5) |
| SEA | Body of water in south-east Asia chiefly (3) |
| BEES | Social insects whose buzzing noise is created by their wings beating some 11,400 times per minute (4) |
| ANGELFALLS | Drop of water in South America, so one fewer in heaven? |
| AERIE | A large stretch of water where birds can raise their young (5) |
| EERIE | By the end, a large stretch of water was weird (5) |
| OCEAN | Large stretch of water (5) |
| ZAIRE | Former name for large country in southcentral Africa (about 900,000 sq miles; pop about 18 million) (5) |
| ABERT | Lake ___, a large, shallow alkali stretch of water in the US north-west (5) |
| SABRE | Bachelor in South Africa about to find sword (5) |
| TRACT | Big stretch of open land |
| LOCHNESS | Large stretch of water in the Scottish Highlands (4,4) |
| BALA | A large stretch of water in north Wales (4) |
| INDIANOCEAN | Large stretch of sea bordered by Africa in the west, Asia in the north and Australia in the east (6,5) |
| IRISHSEA | Hire sis a building on a large stretch of water (5,3) |
| NORTHSEA | Fire off shot near large stretch of water (5,3) |
| LIMPOPO | A river in South East Africa forming part of the borders between South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe (7) |
| MALAWI | Country in south-east Africa (45,747 sq miles; pop about 18 million), independent since 1964 (6) |
| NYASALAND | Old name for a country in south-east Africa (45,747 sq miles; pop about 15 million), independent since 1964 (9) |
| ZIMBABWE | Landlocked country in south-east Africa (150,572 sq miles; pop about 15 million), independent since 1980 (8) |
