| GRANDBANKS | Submarine plateau of the continental shelf off SE Newfoundland, Canada (5,5) |
| KENTLEDGE | Ship's ballast taken from Continental shelf off Dover? |
| DEEPSEA | Parts of the ocean beyond the edge of the continental shelf |
| NERITIC | Of the shallow waters of the continental shelf |
| IKEA | Where to get a shelf off the shelf |
| MATOGROSSO | High plateau of Brazil that forms the watershed separating the Amazon and Plata river systems (4,6) |
| MADAGASCAR | Island nation off SE Africa |
| OCEANFLOOR | Continental shelf or abyssal plain location |
| BOGOTA | The capital of Colombia, on a Central plateau of the East Andes (6) |
| BATHYAL | Of or denoting the ocean region between the continental shelf and the abyssal zone, typically between 200 and 2000 metres deep (7) |
| KALAHARI | The large basinlike plain of the interior plateau of Southern Africa. It occupies almost all of Botswana, the eastern third of Namibia, and the northernmost part of Northern Cape province in South Afr |
| MALINSEA | Body of water covering the continental shelf between Ireland and Scotland (5,3) |
| ALTIPLANO | A densely populated upland plateau of the Andes, stretching from Peru to Argentina |
| OCEANIC | Living beyond the continental shelf in depths over 200 metres |
| RACE | Cape ___, promontory at the SE extremity of Newfoundland, Canada (4) |
| OILRIG | Structure on the continental shelf |
| NANTUCKET | Island off SE Massachusetts, US; a former centre of the whaling industry (9) |
| REPLICATE | Island off SE Massachusetts, US; a former centre of the whaling industry (9) |
| ICESHEET | Description of the continental glacier covering 98 per cent of Antarctica or another covering some 80 per cent of Greenland (3,5) |
| STJOHNS | Seaport capital of Newfoundland, Canada (2,5) |
