| MEDWAY | River that flows through Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham to the Thames estuary |
| LEONLEGGE | Cambridge defender formerly at Brentford and Gillingham (4,5) |
| ASHBY | Barry ___, former Watford, Brentford and Gillingham defender (5) |
| ESSEX | County of South East England, on the North Sea and the Thames estuary (5) |
| RIVERWEY | It flows through Guildford to the Thames (5,3) |
| STRAND | Street in London parallel to the Thames, site of Somerset House and the Courtauld Gallery (6) |
| CAPECOD | Truro, Chatham, and Barnstable are on this peninsula |
| SONS | Male offspring, like Albert Square resident Karen Taylor's Chatham and Riley (4) |
| KENT | County containing the Medway towns including Chatham, Gillingham and Rochester (4) |
| CANVEYISLAND | Area of land in the Thames Estuary in Essex, separated from the mainland by a network of creeks (6,6) |
| AVIATOR | Amy Johnson, whose career came to an end in the Thames estuary in 1941, was a famous one of these (7) |
| DOWNSTREAM | Bluewater is nearer the Thames estuary than London? |
| OTTERS | Riverside residents on the Thames estuary, rock stars originally (6) |
| SHEPPEY | Name of an island in the Thames estuary |
| SOUTHENDONSEA | Essex resort on the Thames estuary (8-2-3) |
| CANVEY | ____ Island, town in the Thames Estuary near Southend-on-Sea (6) |
| GRANDJUNCTION | Canal that once linked Braunston in Northamptonshire to the Thames near Oxford (5,8) |
| EYE | London ___ (Ferris wheel next to the Thames river) |
| LEA | River flowing from Luton to the Thames (3) |
| DARTFORD | Town in Kent on the Thames estuary |