| BASILAR | Situated at the bottom, as of the skull |
| DEPTH | Distance from the top to the bottom, as in a spade from the top of its blade down to its bottom edge (5) |
| AWEIGH | Just clear of the bottom, as an anchor |
| ATRIP | Free of the bottom, as an anchor |
| SPANKS | Hits on the bottom as a punishment |
| SETTLES | Sinks to the bottom, as silt |
| MOON | Bare the bottom as a prank |
| SETTLE | Sink to the bottom, as sediment |
| NANTES | Capital of the Loire-Atlantique department of W France, situated at the head of the Loire estuary (6) |
| LARYNX | The organ of the voice, situated at the top of the trachea (6) |
| KEITH | Situated at the junction of the Duke and Riddoch highways, what town is known as the Lucerne capital of Australia? (5) |
| CHIASMA | Intersection or crossing-over, as of the optic nerves at the base of the brain (7) |
| DIASPORA | Dispersion of a population from its homeland, as of the Jews after the Babylonian captivity of the 6th century BC (8) |
| SERENE | From the Latin for "clear", a word used to mean fair, pure or unclouded, as of the sky or the air; calm, peaceful and tranquil; or, as part of a royal title, honoured (6) |
| YSEULT | Using an alternative spelling, what name was shared by two heroines of Arthurian romance: one, an Irish princess known as the Fair, the other, known as of the White Hands? (6) |
| SUNK | At the ocean's bottom, as a ship |
| ISCHIA | Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea situated at the northern end of the Bay of Naples (6) |
| TONSIL | One of two small masses of lymphatic tissue situated at the back of the throat (6) |
| CUBA | Largest of the West Indian islands, situated at the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico (4) |
| ID | The inherited instinctive impulses of an individual as of the unconscious |
