| FIRSTGEAR | Low tree gets poisoned next to a river (5,4) |
| CAMPANILE | Group of tents next to a river and a tower (9) |
| CHICKADEE | American songster caught by country bumpkin next to a river |
| FIREPROOF | Tree gets record cover, being immune to flame (9) |
| OVERTAKEN | Being passed by van OK, tree gets shattered (9) |
| ARAPAHO | A father with house next to a river used by Native American tribe |
| UNCLEAR | For relative next to a river, it's ambiguous (7) |
| ALES | Principal church next to a river (4) |
| ARCH | Principal church next to a river (4) |
| FLOODPLAIN | Land next to a river 7 little words |
| SETTEES | Seating put next to a river (7) |
| BLUEGUM | Stick next to low tree (4,3) |
| SCROG | Scots or Northern English dialect for a broken branch, bushy place, crab-apple, crooked bush, low tree, scrubby wood, stump or other shrivelled, stunted or withered thing (5) |
| EDGES | Head off to a row of low trees that act as the boundaries (5) |
| FELLOWCREATURE | Careful ? low tree can be made out, or something similar (6,8) |
| ELDER | Low tree or shrub with white flowers and black berries (5) |
| GASH | Good tree gets cut (4) |
| CYPRESS | Tree gets almost icy newspaper notice (7) |
| GUMBOILS | Tree gets angry over oral abscesses (8) |
| FIRSTAID | Tree gets sedate medical assistance (5,3) |
