| LEANDER | Lover of Hero who drowned in the Hellespont (7) |
| OUTFALL | Between the middle of July and the end of August, three people drowned in the Fal, where the river empties into the sea (7) |
| DENNIS | ___ Rickman, son of Sharon Watts who drowned in the Thames in EastEnders (6) |
| ICARUS | In Greek mythology, son of Daedalus who drowned in the Aegean (6) |
| SHELLEY | Percy Bysshe ___, English Romantic poet who drowned in 1822 |
| CLAUDIO | Lover of Hero in Much Ado About Nothing (7) |
| ALCYONE | In Greek mythology, the daughter of Aeolus who drowned herself in grief at her husband's death and was transformed into a kingfisher (7) |
| HERO | In Greek myths, a priestess of Aphrodite, who killed herself when her lover drowned in the Hellespont (4) |
| LOEPOOL | Last April, three people who lived in Poole drowned in the largest freshwater lake in Cornwall (3,4) |
| PERCYBYSSHESHELLEY | British romantic poet who drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Livorno to La Spezia |
| SIRGALAHAD | Parliament Hill statue honouring the heroic chivalry of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's best friend from youth Henry Albert Harper who drowned in his attempt to rescue Miss Bessie Blair w |
| LYSANDER | Commander of the Spartan fleet that defeated the Athenians in the Hellespont in 405 BC (8) |
| ROBERTMAXWELL | Which British media proprietor, who drowned in 1991, was later found to have looted his employees' pension fund? (6,7) |
| BYSSHE | English Romantic poet who drowned in mysterious circumstances, Percy ... Shelley |
| PARK | Mungo, Scottish explorer who drowned in 1806 (4) |
| DESIRE | Long for knight who drowned in British river |
| ALEXPULLIN | Australia's 2014 Winter Olympic flag-bearer who drowned in 2020 (4,6) |
| EXE | Last June, a former partner of mine drowned in the river by the cliffs at Brampford Speke (3) |
| TAMAR | In March, a leading thespian drowned in the river at Calstock (5) |
| HOWARDSEND | Has drowned in the movie (7,3) |
