| DOVEDALE | Peak District beauty spot, renowned for its stepping stones across the river (8) |
| DUCKS | ___ and drakes; game of skimming stones across the surface of water (5) |
| TRANSOM | Horizontal bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window (7) |
| DAP | Skip stones across water |
| CAUSEWAY | The why and the how of stepping-stones? (8) |
| SKIMMING | Bouncing (a stone across water) (8) |
| PERRONET | Jean-Rodolphe ?, 18th-century French architect; designer of the Pont de la Concorde across the River Seine in Paris (8) |
| STRABANE | N Irish town, across the River Foyle from Lifford in County Donegal (8) |
| AIREDALE | Bloody best bitter bottles in Yorkshire beauty spot (8) |
| PORRIDGE | Unfinished harbour structure across the river hasn't started - some people are saying they're making a meal of it! (8) |
| ASWANDAM | Artificial embankment built across the River Nile in Egypt (5,3) |
| KNOYDART | Remote beauty spot reportedly irritated Garfunkel? (8) |
| THANKFUL | Beauty spot in Arrochar, Rest and be - (8) |
| EYECANDY | Beauty spot in front of city's limits? (3,5) |
| LOCHSHIN | Drop out from ragged school, hiding first in beauty spot north of Lairg (4,4) |
| YOSEMITE | American's beauty spot very big issue, you must admit |
| SWELLING | Beauty spot |
| STAYSPUT | Sticks around novel beauty spots without an OBE (5,3) |
| CHARON | His duty was to ferry the souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx, which divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. |
| FROSTLINE | In our solar system, for example, it's the distance from the Sun where grains of ice can form, which is an important stepping stone for forming planets (5,4) |
