| FEWSTON | Yorks. fly-fishing reservoir in Washburn Valley (*two fens) (7) |
| DABBLE | In valley, two bishops putter around (6) |
| GRAFHAM | Water, Cambs. fly-fishing reservoir/SSSI (*farm hag) (7) |
| ESK | N. Yorks fly fishing river - in blue skies! (3) |
| YORKS | County (abbrev.) location of Swinsty fly-fishing reservoir (5) |
| LAVER | N.Yorks fly-fishing river, tributary of Skell - and red seaweed (5) |
| EMBSAY | Yorkshire fly-fishing reservoir near Skipton (*my base) (6) |
| SWINSTY | River Washburn flows into this Yorks. reservoir (*tiny SSW) (7) |
| ESSIEDU | Paapa ---, actor who played Ed Washburn in the BBC TV series Press (7) |
| PALANCE | Jack, actor who played Curly Washburn in the 1991 film City Slickers (7) |
| SANJOSE | California city located in Silicon Valley: 2 wds. |
| CHEDDAR | Circular reservoir in Somerset (*had cred) (7) |
| LOCHLEE | Reservoir in Glen Esk, Angus (4,3) |
| DERWENT | The name of four rivers and two reservoirs in northern England |
| FESTOON | What Iianas do in tropical forests, also in the wild fens (7) |
| YUCATAN | Mexican state feline found in many fens? (7) |
| ENGULFS | Floods in devastated fens pull back (7) |
| NORFOLK | County whose habitats include broads, breck heaths, fens, meres, salt marshes, mudflats, ponds, pingos and number of others in its nature reserve at Holkham (7) |
| STIFFEN | Harden resistance of The Fens, fit for development (7) |
| INFESTS | Swarms over its fens like this (7) |
