### Clue: Sneaky way out of swimming baths back to house on banks of lake (8)
### Answer: LOOPHOLE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Sneaky way out
 **Reversal of**(back) POOL(swimming baths) **plus**(to) HO(abbrev. for "house") **plus**(on) **1st and last letters of**(banks of) "lake ".