| TITICACA | Largest navigable lake in South America, highest lake in the world (8) |
| TAHOE | The highest lake in the United States (5) |
| AMELIE | US' highest-grossing French language film (2001) |
| TONIESAP | Situated in central Cambodia, the largest lake in south-east Asia (5,3) |
| SUPERIOR | What is the largest freshwater lake in the world? (8) |
| ISSYKKUL | A lake in north Kyrgyzstan; second-largest mountain lake in the world (5-3) |
| SUMMERED | Spent season meandering at first on lake in south of France |
| STHELENA | Immediately securing emptied lake in South American island (2,6) |
| VICTORIA | Largest tropical lake in the world |
| ARAL | ___ Sea (environmentally-destroyed lake in the former Soviet Union whose Wikipedia page is written in the past tense; 50 years ago it was the fourth-largest lake in the world) |
| MARACAIBO | The largest natural lake in South America |
| ARALSEA | Lake in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that was formerly the fourth largest lake in the world (4,3) |
| CASPIAN | As panic breaks out in the largest lake in the world (7) |
| NATAL | The first view of nightfall at a lake in South Africa (5) |
| SLUDGE | Lake in south of France, for example, in turn creates thick mud (6) |
| BROADS | Navigable lakes in East Anglia |
| BAIKAL | The largest freshwater lake in the world by volume (6) |
| TANGANYIKA | Longest freshwater lake in the world and the deepest in Africa (10) |
| DEADSEA | Lowest lake in the world, in SW Asia on the border between Israel and Jordan (4,3) |
| MEAD | Reservoir of Hoover Dam, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, on the Arizona-Nevada border (4) |
