| BONEYM | Rivers of Babylon group |
| PSALMS | David's biblical hymns or sacred songs, sometimes of "green pastures", "rivers of Babylon" or "still waters" (6) |
| PSALM | The 137th begins "By the rivers of Babylon" |
| PROIRAQ | Recalls Q&A with local Yank about old songwriter, the last favouring Hit not a million miles from Rivers of Babylon? (3-4) |
| ABEDNEGO | In the Book of Daniel, one of three men thrown into a fiery pit for refusing to bow to an image of the king of Babylon (8) |
| OHIO | One of the rivers of Three Rivers Stadium |
| GARDENS | Hanging ___ of Babylon (creation of King Nebuchadnezzar, for his wife, on the east bank of the Euphr |
| HAMMURABI | King of Babylon who became the first king of the Babylonian Empire following the abdication of his father, Sin-Muballit |
| NEBUCHADNEZZAR | King of Babylon, and destroyer of Jerusalem (14) |
| ACHERON | One of the five rivers of Hades, known as the River of Woe (7) |
| MANATEE | A large aquatic herbivorous animal of the warm parts of the Atlantic and the rivers of Brazil (7) |
| STYX | It is one of the rivers of the underworld. The word literally means "shuddering" and expresses loathing of death. |
| COCKAIGNE | Mythical medieval land of plenty, idleness and luxury described as having dwellings of cake and barley sugar, rivers of milk or wine, roasted geese roaming pastry-paved streets and skies raining chees |
| DRIFT | A mass of snow or leaves, piled up by the wind; a large spread of daffodils, snowdrops or other flowering plants; a flock of cattle or birds; a heavy shower of rain/sleet; or, loose fluvioglacial or g |
| ELBE | One of the major rivers of Central Europe |
| CHENAB | On of the five rivers of the Punjab |
| TIGRIS | One of the two great rivers of Mesopotamia |
| NABONIDUS | Last king of Babylon before it fell to the Persian conqueror Cyrus The Great in 539 BC; father of Belshazzar (9) |
| SENNACHERIB | King of Assyria responsible for the destuction of Babylon (11) |
| HANGINGGARDENS | ___ of Babylon, ancient Wonder of the World (7,7) |
