| MORAR | Name of Britain's deepest lake and shortest river, both located in the Scottish Highlands (5) |
| LOCHNESS | Located in the Scottish Highlands, the most voluminous lake in the UK (4,4) |
| OREGON | Home to the deepest lake and river gorge in the U.S. |
| OXLEY | Which surveyor and explorer created the myth of the inland sea by reporting that the Macquarie and the Lachlan Rivers both ended in swamps and that this might mark the beginning of a sea? (5) |
| BAIN | England's shortest river and Ure tributary (*I ban) (4) |
| EITHER | Tie up horse east of rivers, both one and the other |
| NYASA | Third-largest and second-deepest lake of Africa, forming most of the eastern border of Malawi with Tanzania and Mozambique (5) |
| OHRID | Deepest lake in the Balkans, situated on the border between Macedonia and Albania (5) |
| MORAG | Nickname of the monster said to live in Loch Morar in the Scottish Highlands (5) |
| CAIRN | One of the oldest terrier breeds, originating in the Scottish Highlands (5) |
| TAHOE | Second-deepest lake in the US (5) |
| BOTHY | Originally for itinerant farm workers, a cottage or hut in the Scottish Highlands, mountains or remote parts of Britain as a refuge or temporary dwelling (5) |
| CONON | Salmon river in the Scottish Highlands (5) |
| BRAVE | 2012 computer-animated Pixar film set in the Scottish Highlands (5) |
| SLAVE | Our deepest lake: Great ___ |
| PHILEMON | Last and shortest of the Pauline epistles in the New Testament, addressed to the owner of slave Onesimus (8) |
| LAIDE | Village in the Scottish Highlands |
| SEVERN | Name of Britain's longest river and of a river in NSW (6) |
| JUNE | Did you know?: The summer solstice (which is the time of the longest day and shortest night) occurs each year on the 20th or 21st of ___ |
| HARDTIMES | Tenth and shortest of Charles Dickens' fourteen completed novels (1854), set in the fictional Coketown (4,5) |
