| VOLGA | The world's longest river flowing into an inland body of water rather than the sea |
| ASTRONAUTS | Sailors of the stars, rather than the sea or the sky, whose name was actually coined in sci-fi (10) |
| DAPS | Fishes by gently placing the hook in the water rather than casting it out |
| LAKEFRONT | The area of land around the edge of an inland body of water (9) |
| ANGULARLY | A river flowing into an artificial channel obliquely |
| LAKE | An inland body of fresh water larger than a pool or a pond |
| MEKONG | World's 12th longest river, flowing into the South China Sea (6) |
| SPEY | The longest river flowing into the Moray Firth |
| CASPIANSEA | It's the world's largest inland body of water. (And it's the one body of water here that's got Sea in its name. So, there, we've given you three letters already.) |
| MAIN | Longest tributary of the Rhine. and the longest river flowing entirely within Germany (4) |
| CASPIAN | The ___ Sea is the largest inland body of water in the world. (7) |
| AZOV | Sea of ____, inland body of water linked to the Black Sea (4) |
| AFRICA | Containing the world's longest river, the largest hot desert and home to the biggest land mammal, the secondlargest continent on Earth (6) |
| HADRAMAUT | Region in east-central Yemen, on the Gulf of Aden, made up of a hilly area near the coast and an inland valley occupied by a seasonal watercourse, the Wadi Hadramawt, that runs parallel to the coast b |
| NILE | This river in Africa is the world's longest river (4) |
| BREMEN | The largest German city on the longest river flowing entirely in Germany (6) |
| BLACKSEA | Inland body of water to the north of Turkey (5,3) |
| ARALSEA | Much-reduced Eurasian lake, once the fourth-largest inland body of water in the world |
| NILOTIC | Of the world's longest river |
| HUDSON | The - Bay is an inland sea in NE Canada which houses the Belcher Islands (6) |
