| MINNOWS | Small freshwater fishes found shoaling in some streams and rivers, Phoxinus phoxinus (7) |
| MINNOW | Small slender freshwater fish such as Phoxinus phoxinus (6) |
| OSIERS | Often growing near streams and rivers, willows with flexible withies woven for windbreaks, baskets, screens and hurdles Salix viminalis (6) |
| KINGFISHER | Colourful bird seen by streams and rivers (10) |
| WATERCRESS | Leafy salad plant of streams and rivers |
| DARTERS | Small freshwater fishes (7) |
| IPSWICH | Port town in Suffolk, home to Thomas Gainsborough for some 15 years, where he painted subjects from butterfly chases and local gentry to parks, ponds, streams and weirs (7) |
| ANCHOVY | Small shoaling fish noted for its salty taste that is an ingredient in Gentleman's Relish (7) |
| STAMMER | 1000 jump in the stream and find difficulty in speaking (7) |
| TANIWHA | In Maori mythology, a supernatural creature which resides in deep pools and rivers (7) |
| NAIADES | Which water-nymphs are fabled to preside over streams and springs (7) |
| ESTUARY | Type of inlet where the sea meets a river/stream and fresh and salt water mix (7) |
| TUNISIA | African country is beside island surrounded by shoaling fish (7) |
| LOACHES | Some slender freshwater fishes |
| BURNLEY | Stream and meadow in Lancashire town (7) |
| DREDGER | Machine for clearing silt from canals and rivers (7) |
| MANATEE | The African ___ is an aquatic mammal inhabiting coastal waters and rivers from Angola to Senegal (7) |
| PIRANAS | Carnivorous freshwater fishes (Var.) |
| TENCHES | Eurasian freshwater fishes |
| TORRENT | Rushing stream and river bordering Oregon (7) |
