Crossword puzzle clue "ocean floor denizens"

OCTOPUS, (Greek) a nocturnal eight-armed mollusk

of an anchor when it is just drawn out of the ground, in a perpendicular position

in the process of being raised, as an anchor just raised from the bottom

the lower part of something

the place far down under the sea

DEEP, extending far down from the surface

DEEP, the place far down under the sea