| LEAGUES | Twenty Thousand ___ under the Sea, film (7) |
| NEYLAND | Canadian from Quebec in Jules Verne's classic book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: 2 wds. |
| DONTSIT | "___ under the apple tree ..." |
| MINUTES | Iguanas can spend 28 ___ under the water before having to take another breath |
| BALLOON | One of ten- to twenty-thousand in "Up" |
| TENTONS | Twenty thousand pounds |
| ILIVED | "If ___ Under the Sea" (Barney & Friends song; 2 wds.) |
| VERNE | Science-fiction pioneer whose novels include Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days (5) |
| SEMIFINAL | Match at sea in sea film (9) |
| NEMO | Captain of the Nautilus in the Jules Verne fantasy, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| JULES | Author famous for Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, etc. (5,5) |
| TAHITI | Island called the "queen of the Pacific" in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" |
| GIANTSQUID | Creature that attacked the Nautilus in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" |
| ISLEOFMAN | No sea film shot here ___ though it could be (4,2,3) |
| CASTINGADRIFT | Hiring actors for a Shailene Woodley survival-at-sea film? |
| NAUTILUS | Name of Captain Nemo's submarine in Jules Verne's adventure novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island (8) |
| SUBMARINES | Inventions that inspired the sci-fi novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne |
| JULESVERNE | French author whose novels include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty |
| NED | "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" character Land |
| SEA | Jules Verne, the science fiction pioneer, wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The ... |
