| OARFISH | Longest bony fish, up to 8m in length, which lives in the deep oceans and is rarely seen on the surface (7) |
| SPUME | Suds on the surf |
| SANDY | The Knysna seahorse lives at depths of 50cm to 8m, on ___ bottoms or around clumps of plants |
| MINISUB | Small vessel in the deep ocean |
| EELS | Slender, elongated fish, mostly freshwater but which also breed in warm, deep oceans (4) |
| PARFIVE | What an ace is rarely seen on |
| EAGLE | Muppet Sam, say, is rarely seen on golf course (5) |
| PARROT | Take fish up to the bird (6) |
| EELPOUT | Small broad-headed cold water fish - up to lee (anag) (7) |
| RISES | Continental ___ (transitions between continental slopes and the deep ocean floor) |
| BAIRN | Child starts to behave and is rarely naughty (5) |
| HADAL | Accepted a line about the deep ocean |
| ELL | Old unit of length which varied from 27 to 45 inches |
| INCH | Unit of length which is one twelfth of a foot (4) |
| BODYDOUBLE | Performer whose face is rarely seen |
| FISHEYE | Photographic lens of small focal length which yields a circular image (4-3) |
| AFREERIDE | It's obtained at another person's expense, and is rarely, if ever, seen in 17 across |
| DUGONG | This marine mammal inhabits the warm coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans and feeds on seagrasses; it is similar to the American manatee. (6) |
| EUROPE | Present-day continent composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia. The area is bordered by the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans and the Mediterranean and Black Seas. (6) |
| AQUATIC | An animal which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime is referred to as being ___ |
