| COLDFRONTS | This weather system comes from the south and brings chilly air, warm oceans and rain. But it is weakening leaving the East Coast marine system out of balance. (4,6) |
| SPINELESS | It is weak without thorns (9) |
| EWER | It doesn't rain but it pours (4) |
| BALMY | Of the air, warm and soft (5) |
| TROPICAL | ____ storm, a low-pressure wind system of hurricane force forming over warm oceans (8) |
| SWARM | Crowd comes from the south, warm (5) |
| ELITE | The best English roofer comes from the south (5) |
| SAG | Fall, when wind comes from the south |
| NIP | Chilly air feature |
| DRAFT | Chilly air in a room |
| DUGONG | This marine mammal inhabits the warm coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans and feeds on seagrasses; it is similar to the American manatee. (6) |
| EUROPE | Present-day continent composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia. The area is bordered by the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans and the Mediterranean and Black Seas. (6) |
| NOCHEAPSKATE | "I'm ___ when it comes to the environment, especially our lakes and oceans and ponds and rivers and |
| OTEC | Ocean thermal energy conversion, abbreviated. This form of energy conversion uses the temperature differences between the warm surface waters of the oceans and the deeper cold waters to generate power |
| SOUTHERN | The ________ Ocean is south of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans and their tributary seas, surrounding Antarctica below 60A° S (8) |
| OARFISH | Longest bony fish, up to 8m in length, which lives in the deep oceans and is rarely seen on the surface (7) |
| BALALAIKA | One's played with a dog from the south and a dog from Moscow |
| SAND | From the south and the beach (4) |
| BOW | It is seen after rain, but only after rain (3) |
| GULFSTREAM | Warm ocean current that sweeps from Florida to Canada and across the Atlantic towards Europe (4,6) |