| LEDA | H.D. work that begins, "Where the slow river / meets the tide, / a red swan lifts red wings" |
| SOS | "Mamma Mia!" song that begins "Where are those happy days?" |
| WANDERS | Ambles from 'The Red Swan' drunkenly (7) |
| CHEERUP | Lift red, then lift white (5,2) |
| FLIRTED | Had an adventure with danger, maybe, but could lift Red out (7) |
| ATASLANT | Like an escalator, and, aptly, like the six-letter word that begins where 40-Across ends |
| FLOW | Rise of a tide; a creative mental state of being "in the zone"; or, a steady stream of people or words (4) |
| DUST | Where the slow are left |
| TORTOISESHELL | Where the slow are sure to find cover? (8,5) |
| LIDOS | One closes loop - how synergy begins, where people take the plunge (5) |
| ERRAID | Island on Stevenson Way, linked to Mull at low tide - a drier sort (6) |
| BARGE | Slow river boat |
| LARGO | Slow river flows into Italian lake (5) |
| OBTUSE | Slow river skirts suburbs of Belfast (6) |
| EVEN | When followed by tide, a span of time |
| OSIER | A coppiced willow or any one of its wands, whips or withies for a weaver's hand, growing in a bed or bank where the river meets the wet land (5) |
| TELKWA | British Columbia: 'Where Rivers Meets & Friends Gather' village situated where its namesake river meets with the bulkley River |
| ESTUARY | Coastal body where the river meets the sea, and fresh and salt water mix (7) |
| PAISLEY | Ontario's artsy village where the Teeswater River and Saugeen River meet ...also a lovely pattern on a red bandanna |
| DELTA | Where the river meets the sea |
