| RIPARIAN | Inhabiting a river-bank (8) |
| DEPOSITS | Accumulations on a river bank |
| STARFISH | Known collectively as a galaxy or a constellation, a marine echinoderm inhabiting a coral reef, rock pool, seagrass meadow or kelp forest (8) |
| OCCUPIER | One inhabiting a house (8) |
| AVIFAUNA | Zoological word for the bird life inhabiting a particular region (8) |
| SUMATRAN | ___ tiger, critically endangered wild cat inhabiting a large island off mainland Asia (8) |
| NAIAD | (Myth.) Nymph inhabiting a river, spring or waterfall (5) |
| LEVEED | Made flood- resistant, as a river bank |
| ARROWHEAD | Water plant leader found on a river bank |
| GHAT | Steps to a river bank, in South Asia |
| RIPA | A river bank: viridissima gramine ____, Geo. 3.144 |
| ARROW | Old weapon found in a river bank |
| RIPRAP | Broken stones on a river bank |
| BARRIERREEF | Prickly shrub surrounding a river bank in underwater structure (7,4) |
| OLEANDER | Plant in the river bank (8) |
| OVERGREW | Got too big and hid the river bank (8) |
| TREASURY | Estuary flowing around river bank (8) |
| HERMIT | From the Greek for "solitary", a religious ascetic or other individual living in seclusion; a species of hummingbird foraging alone along a regular route; or, a type of crustacean inhabiting a cast-of |
| FISH | General word for a shoaling or schooling marine vertebrate inhabiting a coral reef, for example (4) |
| AVAILABLE | A bishop inhabiting a new villa close to Rome for free (9) |
