| FLOW | Rise of a tide; or, a steady stream of people or words (4) |
| RECEDE | back like a tide or hairline |
| STREAM | A beck, brook, burn, rivulet or other small natural body of running water; or, a flow of anything, such as gas, internet data, meteors, money into a business, people or words (6) |
| CHURNOUT | Produce a steady stream of |
| KNOT | Bird whose Latin name Calidris canutus recalls the story of King Canute and the tide; or, a flower bed design inspired by Renaissance embroideries and tapestries (4) |
| INFLUX | Continual stream of people or things (6) |
| TRICKLE | A dribble of water or other liquid; an intermittent rivulet or stream; or, a steady flow of people or traffic (7) |
| EBONFLOW | Steady stream of black coffee? |
| EGER | Sudden rise of a river's tide (4) |
| ANNA | Classic book author's 12-month record about the rise of a Sussex town (4,6) |
| NEAP | One appearance of a tide (4) |
| RACE | Stream of people (4) |
| CODE | Term for a collection/digest of laws first, later a secret system of signals, symbols or words, aka a cipher (4) |
| GRUB | Rise of a small town |
| SOAR | Significant rise of a river |
| LIMN | From "cast light on", word originally meaning "illuminate a manuscript with ornamental letters", later "draw or paint in watercolours", "suffuse or highlight" or "describe in painting or words" (4) |
| SOAP | Tide or Surf |
| HIGH | Word before tide or time |
| KEYS | Instruments for winding old clocks; or, words/data for deciphering codes (4) |
| RATE | Miles per hour or words per minute, e.g. |
