| LEANDER | In Greek mythology, the lover of Hero, who drowned while trying to swim across the Hellespont (7) |
| TIRESOME | Trying to swim 10 metres (8) |
| CHANNEL | Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English ... |
| KNOCKON | (rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul) (5-2) |
| SALMOND | Starts to swim across loch but nothing missing for party leader (7) |
| REACHIN | Commit a foul while trying to steal the basketball, perhaps |
| CLAUDIO | Lover of Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (7) |
| ANTHONY | Suffragist arrested while trying to vote on November 5, 1872 |
| SHOULDI | Question while trying to decide |
| EDERLE | Gertrude, U.S. swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel in 1926 (6) |
| HERO | In Greek mythology, a priestess of Aphrodite whose lover, Leander, drowned when swimming across the Hellespont to meet her (4) |
| MENAGERIE | Group of 3 that is following yours truly to swim across the Channel (9) |
| LORDBYRON | "She Walks in Beauty" poet who in 1810 became the first known person to swim across Turkey's Dardanelles Strait |
| SINUS | First to swim across the pond finds recess (5) |
| SUSIE | Youngest person to swim across the English Channel, ... Maroney |
| TWEENAGER | Child, rather cutesy, to swim across the Channel (9) |
| MARILYNBELL | September 9, 1954: Toronto-born long distance swimmer who at just 16 years old, becomes the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. Amid a newspaper war between the Toronto Daily Star and the Toront |
| LETMESEE | Utters this while trying to remember what they'd allowed first person to catch sight of |
| ASTONI | Ziggy _, got kidnapped while trying to buy a van in Home and Away (6) |
| XERXES | ____ I, Persian king noted for his invasion of Greece from across the Hellespont (6) |
