| PASSAU | City in Lower Bavaria where the Danube is joined by the rivers Inn and Ilz |
| MUNICH | Noted for its beer-brewing heritage, the capital of Bavaria where the annual Oktoberfest is hosted (6) |
| TRIPLETIME | Blue Danube is in this outing a hired Brendan in two cases (6,4) |
| LAO | River in southern Italy is joined by the Argentino near Orsomarso and flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea |
| ISIS | Alternative name for the River Thames used from its source in the Cotswolds until it is joined by the Thame at Dorchester (4) |
| OUSE | River that is joined by the Foss in York |
| SPINOZA | "Perfect truth is possible only with knowledge, and in knowledge the whole essence of the thing operates on the soul and is joined essentially to it." He wrote the treatise Ethics. Who is this? |
| OSNABRUCK | German city in Lower Saxony, on the Hase River between the Teutoberg Forest and the Wiehen Mountains (9) |
| CHORUS | The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers (6) |
| SALZGITTER | Industrial city in Lower Saxony in the foothills of the Harz Mountains (10) |
| WIRRAL | The ____ , peninsula in northwest England bounded by the rivers Dee and Mersey (6) |
| BELGRADE | Capital of Serbia, where the Danube and Sava rivers merge (8) |
| CHORUSES | Parts of songs where soloist is joined by group of singers (8) |
| RAISE | The sun-god is joined by Edward 1st for a wage increase |
| INAMOMENT | Soon the girl is joined by a second (2,1,6) |
| EMDEN | Port city in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany (5) |
| EUPHRATES | River which, joined by the Tigris, enters the Persian Gulf as the Shatt-al Arab (9) |
| FORESTOFDEAN | Ancient royal park in West Gloucestershire bounded by the rivers Wye and Severn (6,2,4) |
| HUMBER | Large tidal estuary in northern England formed by the Rivers Ouse and Trent |
| LACES | Ties in which a novice is joined by experts (5) |
