Possible Clues:

• How a deer's just a shade liquid and a 2 down
• For an Egyptian host that was the ruddy end
• See a Dr. in the ruddy drink!
• Narrow arm of the Indian Ocean - erased (anag)
• That's the ruddy 17 down
• It parted for Moses and his followers
• Waters parted for 18 down
• The view from Port Sudan
• One reads about the East for the water that's not in the East
• That might be bloody wet