| 100% | ARAL | 4 | Sea depleted by diversion of the waters of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya |
| 39% | BALTIC | 6 | — Sea, body of water connected to the North Sea by the Skaggerak, Kattegat and Oresund |
| 37% | ARALSEA | 7 | Waters fed by the Amu Darya |
| 37% | ARAL | 4 | Sea fed by the Amu Darya |
| 37% | ARAL | 4 | North __ Sea: lake fed by the Syr Darya river |
| 37% | ARAL | 4 | ___ Sea, outlet of the Amu Darya |
| 35% | LIGURIAN | 8 | — Sea, body of water between the Gulf of Genoa and Corsica |
| 35% | PASTIMES | 8 | Diversions ... as hinted at by the ends of 17-, 34- and 52-Across |
| 34% | INLAND | 6 | — Sea, body of water in SW Japan between the islands of Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu |
| 34% | SCOTIA | 6 | — Sea, body of water between Tierra Del Fuego and the South Sandwich Islands |
| 34% | ANITA | 5 | &25A Author of novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 34% | SULU | 4 | ___ Sea, body of water between Borneo and the Philippines |
| 34% | SUNDA | 5 | — Strait, the body of water between Java and Sumatra linking the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean |
| 34% | RIVERS | 6 | "___ of Babylon," song by Boney M. ... or water bodies like the Nile and Ganges |
| 34% | DESAI | 5 | Anita —, author of the novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea |
| 34% | ATLANTIC | 8 | — Ocean, body of water bounded by the Americas, Africa and Europe |
| 33% | PERSIAN | 7 | __Gulf, body of water fed by the Sea of Oman |
| 33% | LAGOON | 6 | Body of water separated from the sea by a reef |
| 33% | BARENTS | 7 | — Sea, that part of the Arctic Ocean bounded by Norway, Russia, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya and Spitsbergen |
| 33% | OKHOTSK | 7 | Sea of —, that part of the Pacific Ocean surrounded by the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands and Siberian mainland |
| 32% | INDIAN | 6 | & 4D Large body of water bordered by Africa in the west and Australia in the east |
| 32% | BLACK | 5 | — Sea, body of water between Asia and SE Europe also called the Euxine Sea |
| 32% | FAULT | 5 | "The ___ in Our Stars," 2012 novel by John Green which depicts the story of Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters |
| 32% | MARMARA | 7 | Sea of —, body of water in NW Turkey linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus |
| 32% | ONEGA | 5 | Lake —, body of water in NW Russia between Lake Ladoga and the White Sea |
| 32% | ONEGA | 5 | Lake —, body of water in northwest Russia between Lake Ladoga and the White Sea |
| 31% | TIDAL | 5 | Affected by movement of the sea |
| 31% | ADEN | 4 | Gulf of ___ (body of water connected to the Red Sea by the Bab el-Mandeb) |
| 31% | GENEVA | 6 | Lake —, body of water between Switzerland and France fed and drained by the River Rhone |
| 31% | LAGOONS | 7 | Stretches of salt water near the sea |