Following calm, canoe lost in vast watery expanse (7,5)
I believe the answer is:
pacific ocean
'vast watery expanse' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both natural objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'following calm canoe lost' is the wordplay.
'following' says to put letters next to each other.
'calm' becomes 'pacific' (I've seen this before).
'lost' indicates an anagram.
'canoe' anagrammed gives 'ocean'.
'pacific' put next to 'ocean' is 'PACIFIC OCEAN'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pacific ocean that I've seen before include "Main discovery made by European" , "Largest sea on Earth" , "Sea of Tranquillity?" , "World''s largest, deepest sea" .)