| SARGASSOSEA | North Atlantic body of water, as in the title of author Jean Rhys' 1966 novel Wide ___ ___ |
| EMERSION | Coming out of the water, as in the reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse (8) |
| SYNE | "Ago", as in the title of a well-known Scottish song |
| SPUD | Title of author John van de Ruit's books even when "The Madness Continues" (4) |
| ANET | Claude ___, pseudonym of author Jean Schopfer |
| GAPEHOOK | The wide ___ ___, very effecting in snaring carp (4,4) |
| SARGASSO | Jean Rhys told another side of Bronte's Jane Eyre in her 1966 novel, Wide ... Sea |
| RHYS | Jean, author of the 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea (4) |
| PENSTOCK | Valve-controlled sluice or pipe regulating the flow from a dammed body of water, as to a water-mill (8) |
| DROPLET | Small quantity of water, as in cloud (7) |
| STREAM | What is a steady current of water, as in a river (6) |
| MILLPOND | Calm body of water, as part of a simile (8) |
| GENETIC | Concerned with the origins of writer Jean, I note (7) |
| MOLIERE | Nom de plume of writer Jean Baptiste Poquelin (7) |
| FAHR | Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure. |
| SEA | Body of water in the titles of Ernest Hemingway and Jean Rhys novels |
| ELLE | Magazine that "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" author Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor of |
| DUCKS | - and drakes; outdoor game or pastime where the object is to skim a stone across the surface of water as many times as possible before it sinks (5) |
| REAUMUR | Which scientist gives his name to a thermometer that defines the freezing point of water as zero and the boiling point as 80? (7) |
| JEAN | Author of the novel Wide Sargasso Sea (4) |
