| OCEANUS | Titan, personification of the great river the Greeks believed encircled the world (7) |
| ARA | The Greeks believed its offerings' smoke formed the Milky Way |
| ORBITED | Possibly rode round a bit and encircled the globe (7) |
| RUFF | It encircled the neck of a thug, one hears (4) |
| SUNBEAM | *Ray that ancient Greeks believed drewwater into the sky |
| ANDUIN | In J R R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the great river, east of the Misty Mountains, on whose west bank is the Elvish land of Lothlorien |
| SHANNON | River the longest river in the Republic of Ireland (7) |
| LUALABA | On which great river of the Congo are the towns Kasongo, Ubundu and Bukama? (7) |
| PHOENIX | On the Salt River, the state capital of Arizona (7) |
| DEPLETE | Small place in the middle of a river - the banks, empty (7) |
| MEMPHIS | A port in Tennessee on the Mississippi River; the site of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination (7) |
| SABRINA | Latin name for Great Britain's longest river, the Severn (7) |
| FURRIER | Wild fire around Russia backs onto river - the type that would skin a goat (7) |
| YANGTZE | Asia's longest river, the worlds third longest (7) |
| ORINOCO | Great river of Venezuela (7) |
| ESPOUSE | Support earth on steep banks leading to great river (7) |
| OSBORNE | Old bird turns over, somersaulting into great river, making a retreat on island (7,5) |
| DIGDEEP | Swim round source of great river, having to draw on one's reserves (3,4) |
| NATURAL | Common man's name for a great river (7) |
| NILOTES | People from great river region stole in bit by bit (7) |
