| LYONNESSE | The mythical birthplace of Sir Tristram, believed to have been submerged by the sea (9) |
| ATLANTEAN | Inhabitant of an ancient empire mentioned by Plato, which was submerged by the gods (9) |
| TORRENT | The other ends are submerged by the river in flood (7) |
| ATLANTIS | Anti-salt treatment for land submerged by the ocean (8) |
| DROWNED | Road on the way up had been submerged (7) |
| REEMERGENCE | Resurfacing after brief crisis situation, having been submerged in midlands lake |
| SUNK | Having been submerged |
| ANASTASIA | Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, believed to have been executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 (9) |
| TAVISTOCK | Market town in Devon near the birthplace of Sir Francis Drake (9) |
| PENSHURST | - Place; Henry VIII's hunting lodge, birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney in 1554 (9) |
| CARMELITE | Member of a religious order believed to have been founded during the Crusades |
| NIBELUNGS | What was the mythical race of northern dwarfs who possessed the treasure which was later captured by Siegfried? (9) |
| SISYPHEAN | Word meaning a task than can never be completed, from the mythical king of Ephyra (9) |
| TIDELANDS | Coastal territories periodically submerged by water |
| WHIRLPOOL | Oceanographical feature with which the mythical monster Charybdis is identified |
| GHOSTSHIP | The mythical Flying Dutchman, e.g. |
| LEDA | Moon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4) |
| BLENHEIM | - Palace; designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, Duke of Marlborough's seat at Woodstock near Oxford that was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (8) |
| ROBERT | - the Bruce; believed to have been born and raised in what was Turnberry Castle, the king of Scots depicted by Chris Pine in the film Outlaw King (6) |
| PLIMSOLLMARKS | What are the lines or marks on the hull of British merchant ships that indicate the depth they may be submerged during loading? (8,5) |
