| INMOSTSOUL | Muslins too torn for the deepest you? (6,4) |
| ORGANDIES | Fine muslins (9) |
| ALLIUM | Lily pad torn for removal from London venue |
| ACL | Knee part that is sometimes torn, for short |
| CATSTEVENS | He wrote the Rod Stewart hit "The First Cut Is the Deepest" |
| TANGANYIKA | Longest freshwater lake in the world and the deepest in Africa (10) |
| CHALLENGER | - Deep; situated around 11km below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point in Earth |
| ROCKBOTTOM | The deepest depth (2 wds.) |
| ALTISSIMUS | The deepest river: ____ amnis |
| BASS | One of the words for a flax, hemp, jute or lime fibre bag for holding an angler's fish; a powerful sea perch with a brilliant silver body; or, from "low", the lowest part in music or the deepest male |
| TRENCH | The deepest point on the Earth's surface is located in the Mariana ______ in the Pacific Ocean. (6) |
| OER | "They who know the most must mourn the deepest __ the fatal truth" (Byron) |
| LOCHMORAR | Situated four miles from Mallaig in the Scottish Highlands, the deepest body of freshwater in the British Isles (4,5) |
| MORAR | With Ben Nevis in its view and home to the legendary Morag, loch which is the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles (5) |
| ARNOLD | P.P., soul singer noted for her 1967 song The First Cut Is The Deepest (6) |
| HELLSCANYON | Cut by the Snake River in Idaho, it is the deepest gorge in the US |
| MARIANA | Trench that's the deepest place in the ocean |
| CUT | "The First ___ Is the Deepest" by Cat Stevens |
| LAKENYASA | An African Great Lake and the deepest on the continent (4,5) |
| HADAL | Relating to the deepest parts of the ocean (below 6000 meters) |