| NADA | Nothing, in Novaya Ladoga |
| ONEGA | Second-largest lake in Europe, in NW Russia between Lake Ladoga and the White Sea (5) |
| KARASEA | Body of water in the Arctic Ocean east of Novaya Zemlya (4,3) |
| KARA | Sea off Novaya Zemlya |
| ZEMLYA | Novaya ____ is a northern extension of the Urals |
| ILMEN | Lake ?, body of water in NW Russia that drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga (5) |
| NEVA | River from Lake Ladoga |
| AKELA | Cub Scout leader crosses Lake Ladoga (5) |
| BARENTS | ? Sea, that part of the Arctic Ocean bounded by Norway, Russia, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya and |
| PECHORA | ? Sea, southeastern extension of the Barents Sea south of Novaya Zemlya |
| RIVERNEVA | Waterway linking Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland |
| LOIRE | Nothing in Italian money current in France (5) |
| NULLSET | Sell nonsense in head, there's nothing in it (4,3) |
| OBOE | Nothing in honours list award for one in orchestra |
| HOWEVER | We stand in for nothing in household cleaner, nevertheless (7) |
| GLOVE | Mostly nothing in tennis and one of a pair in boxing (5) |
| DEVON | See nothing in small room in Tavistock Place? (5) |
| BAROQUE | Nothing in the sailing vessel is in lavishly decorated style (7) |
| GOOUT | With nothing, nothing in stomach, leave home (2,3) |
| ROD | There's nothing in the way, in short, of the pole (3) |