| SUBSIDENCE | The gradual sinking of an area of a land (10) |
| PROLAPSE | The sinking of an organ or tissue down from its normal position (8) |
| LANDOWNING | Being the possessor of an area of countryside |
| DETAIL | Based on "to cut", a word for an individual fact or item; an area of a painting or map considered/studied separately from the whole; or, a body of troops set apart for special duty (6) |
| PERIMETER | The whole of the outer edge or boundary of an area of land (9) |
| INTERFACING | A textile used on the 'wrong' side of fabrics to make an area of a garment more rigid (11) |
| ATSEA | The phrase that describes the sinking of a vessel or the presumed death of a sailor, lost ... (2,3) |
| SUNYATSEN | This Pekinese was one of three dogs to survive the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. It was the companion of Myna Harper and Henry S. Harper, heir to the Harper and Row publishing company. (According to |
| APHESIS | Linguistic term for the gradual loss of an unstressed vowel at the beginning of a word, as in round from around (7) |
| EYE | Yours truly speaking of an area of low pressure in the centre of a tornado (3) |
| FILL | Contents of a container; material occupying a space; or, gravel, soil, stones etc used to level or raise the elevation of a land feature (4) |
| GHETTO | What is an area of a city in which a minority group lives in conditions of poverty (6) |
| ARMENIAN | Person from or the language of a land-locked former republic of the USSR |
| TITANIC | The first film to make over a billion dollars; it is based on the sinking of a ship after it struck an iceberg |
| EDITHCAVELL | Like the sinking of the Lusitania, the execution of ____ was used in British propaganda during the First World War (5,6) |
| TAFT | Who was US president at the time of the sinking of the Titanic? (4) |
| BROWN | The 'Unsinkable Mrs _', survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (5) |
| SAVOYARD | A native of an area of south-east France (8) |
| ZONAL | Of an area of the Amazon Alan included (5) |
| TERRAIN | Surface features of an area of land |
