| HYDROLOGIST | Water expert keeping awfully dry old record in his time |
| BLACKEYE | British Library expert keeping crucial evidence of beating (5,3) |
| NODULOSE | Like Knotty Ash's hooter, keeping awfully loud |
| MALLE | Ray ___, leading match angler, running water expert (*all me) (5) |
| RAYMALLE | Match ace/running water expert - qualified for RiverFest 2022 (*really, Ma?) (3,5) |
| HYDROGRAPHERS | Having rarer PhD, go shy around these water experts |
| GIELGUD | British actor whose autobiography "An Actor in his Time" was published in 1979 |
| HENGIST | Old Jute settler, English in his time |
| HONEYED | Henry I ___ in his time you'd like words of flattery (7) |
| ELECTORATE | George I, say, worried comparatively few people in his time |
| HELLENIST | One who's adopted Greek girl in his time |
| TYPEE | Melville's most popular novel, in his time |
| HYDRATE | Water required in awfully dry heat (7) |
| STEREO | Time to plug in dry old music player (6) |
| DEHYDRATE | Heated and dry, awfully dry (9) |
| HYDRANT | Hot worker getting awfully dry inside? Supplier of water needed |
| RAINLESS | Third of relish in sarnies, awfully dry (8) |
| THEOLOGY | Those people having put old record in priest's study (8) |
| YELP | Some play El Paso (the old record) in part of Barking (4) |
| ASIDE | One half of old record in reserve |
