| RIVERS | Watercourses navigable by barge, canoe, punt or skiff whose riparian wildlife includes kingfishers, herons, otters and water voles (6) |
| WETLANDS | Bogs, fens and other freshwater habitats whose species include kingfishers, otters and water voles (8) |
| BOAT | Sloop or skiff |
| SHIP | Scow or skiff |
| AVON | Kennet and - Canal; navigable by longboat or barge, or by bike along its towpath, a waterway flowing through parts of Wiltshire and the Cotswolds (4) |
| WATERRAT | Mistaken name of a riverbank or "riparian" vole, which is an expert diver and swimmer, widely associated with The Wind in the Willows by extension, a boatman, pirate or sailor; or, a person who is fon |
| LAKETITICACA | What is the world's highest water body navigable by large vessels? (4,8) |
| CANYON | Type of gorge/ravine that may be navigable by means of kloofing (6) |
| TOWPATHS | Riverside trails or canal walkers' ways, originally ambled by barge-pulling horse boaters, from bays to greys (8) |
| SEAWAY | Nerdy leaving New Year's Day by barge route (6) |
| STISHOVITE | Mineral: it's carried by barge after it's returned |
| BREAKALEG | Do well with cabbage transported by barge at sea (5,1,3) |
| GROUNDBREAKING | Innovative course taken by barge confused person in charge (14) |
| CROWNS | Chief ornaments; diadems; flocks of kingfishers; or, the tops of arches, hats, pineapples or trees |
| CABLECARS | A hundred can reach riparian plain, almost, by mountain transport (5-4) |
| QUANT | Punt- or barge-propelling pole (5) |
| KICK | A sudden spurt of speed in athletics; piquancy; a blow with the foot; or, the punt or dimple in the bottom of a glass wine bottle (4) |
| IGARAPE | Route navigable by canoes, in the Amazon |
| PORBEAGLE | Shark injured by barge pole (9) |
| THRUST | Starting from here in confidence by barge (6) |
