| BOILS | Prepares water as for pasta |
| EMERSION | Reappearance above water, as for a submarine |
| BOIL | Prepare water for pasta |
| BROIL | Run in to prepare water for cook? |
| BOYLE | Listen, prepare water for a cup of tea with singer Susan (5) |
| FISH | Word originally for any creature living in water as opposed to a "beast of the field" or a "bird of the air", later a more specific aquatic vertebrate, such as a minnow, salmon or trout (4) |
| RESERVOIR | Place for holding water as river rose disastrously (9) |
| DROUGHT | It calls for water, as a doctor should |
| SOLID | Like frozen water as opposed to melted water |
| CONDENSATE | Water, as far as steam is concerned |
| DUCKS | - and drakes; outdoor game or pastime where the object is to skim a stone across the surface of water as many times as possible before it sinks (5) |
| SEAQUAKE | Look for foamy water, as you might say? It'll come with this! |
| FAHR | Of a temperature scale that registers the freezing point of water as 32 degrees F and the boiling point as 212 degrees F at one atmosphere of pressure. |
| BOILER | Tough old bird in hot water, as is accountable for the housewarming (6) |
| WALKING | Petrel is derived from St. Peter and the story of his ___ on water as they appear to run on the water when they take off |
| ADAMSALE | An alternative name for water (as drunk by the First Lady, perhaps?) (5,3) |
| DOUGH | Malleable mixture of flour and water as the basis of beignets, bread, crackers, dumplings, noodles, pasta, pastry, pie crusts and pizzas (5) |
| EGGWASH | Mixture of albumen/yolks with milk/water as a glaze for pastry (7) |
| PENSTOCK | Valve-controlled conduit for conveying water, as to a hydroelectric plant (8) |
| REAUMUR | Which scientist gives his name to a thermometer that defines the freezing point of water as zero and the boiling point as 80? (7) |
