| STREAMS | Waters about a thousand asters, spraying them (7) |
| SEEP | Water's about to ooze (4) |
| REDSEA | Stretch of water's about devoid of life, mostly after introduction of sulphur |
| SLIMMER | Cook in hot water about large one on a diet (7) |
| BRINDLE | Salty water (about 100ml mark) (7) |
| FLOORED | Baffled, again, when there's all that water about (7) |
| ONTARIO | see 9ac, Injured Oriental soaks, unclothed, in mass of water (about the size of 17) (4,7) |
| ENGLAND | In part of the UK, New ___ is a strain of late-summer asters, while Calamagrostis x acutiflora '___' is a variegated ornamental grass! (7) |
| FLOWERS | Amazon and asters, Nile and nasturtiums e.g. (7) |
| COSMEAS | Also known as 'Mexican asters' - comes as arranged (7) |
| TANSIES | Relatives of asters |
| SEPIA | A lot of water (about half a pint) and it's brown (5) |
| CATARACT | Big flow of water about needing a sailor to do something (8) |
| LAKE | and 24ac, Injured Oriental soaks, unclothed, in mass of water (about the size of 17) (4,7) |
| JENNYOFFILL | Author of "Weather," featuring a fictional podcast called "Hell and High Water" about cultural degeneracy and climate change (February, 2020) |
| BATHE | Take to water, about to abandon attempt to take in air |
| BATH | Quantity of water about to be expressed in respiration (4) |
| STREAM | Flowing water about to invade street in the morning |
| SPLASH | Scatter water about (6) |
| ERIE | Lake ___, body of water about 120 miles south of London |
