| OXUS | Latin name of the river Amu Darya of central Asia |
| KARAKUM | Great sandy region in Central Asia lying south of the Amu Darya river and occupying about 70 percent of the area of Turkmenistan. (7) |
| USTYURT | Plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya river delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazkol; an inlet of the |
| ARAL | Sea depleted by diversion of the waters of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya |
| GRANTA | Name of the river constituting the upper reaches of the River Cam (6) |
| AGNUSDEI | What is the Latin name of the prayer Lamb of God. a part of the mass in the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran liturgies? (5,3) |
| HEDERA | - helix ; worn as a crown by god of the grape-harvest Dionysus and supporting some 50 species including the blackbird, the Latin name of the native British woodland plant ivy (6) |
| AMSTEL | Also a well-known brand name, what is the name of the river which runs through Amsterdam? (6) |
| ISIS | After one second, repeated the name of the river (4) |
| THAMES | Sam has the name of the river (6) |
| TWEED | The name of the river is material (5) |
| CANTAB | Coming from the medieval Latin name of the city, what means "of Cambridge"? (6) |
| PAVO | Constellation named after the Latin name of the national bird of India (4) |
| ARALSEA | Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan's slowly dying inland sea once fed by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers ( |
| RHEIN | What is the German name of the river that forms a border between France and Germany? (5) |
| ALPH | Name of the river in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan (4) |
| TOWY | English name of the river upon which Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales stands (4) |
| URSAMINOR | Latin name of the Little Bear, the constellation containing star Polaris (4,5) |
| BOMBUS | Literally meaning "buzzing", the Latin name of the bumblebee (6) |
| ALSATIA | Latin name of the ancient area of France which borders Germany and Switzerland |
