| RIPARIAN | Song bearing grave message starting 'Down by the riverside' (8) |
| MELODEON | Organ song bearing fruit? On the contrary |
| LEVEE | Embankment down by the riverside |
| ODES | Secret messages starting with the second poems (4) |
| DUSTY | Starting down under, she took years to become a global star (5) |
| EPITAPHS | Grave messages could make one happiest (8) |
| FALSTAFF | Shakespeare character with a rod at the riverside (8) |
| ALTARNUN | My aunt, a leading novelist, has a large place on the riverside, about 1.5 miles from Laneast (8) |
| STUDENTS | Scholars have stud down, by the end, at a trusted organisation (8) |
| ANDJULIO | Paul Simon song, Me ___ Down by the Schoolyard |
| INSOLENT | It's fresh down by the Hampshire coast (8) |
| GAUNTLET | Allow to hold up thin object thrown down by the challenger (8) |
| NORM | Whenever our two sons go to the Nag's Head by the riverside on the edge of the Mendips, they always order their usual (4) |
| FLATTYRE | Boring Middle Eastern city a let-down by the way? (4,4) |
| MELLOWER | More genial Liberal let down by the Speaker |
| ONEARMED | A single member down by the sea, zero earlier (3-5) |
| MABARKER | Midwest woman with four gangster sons who was gunned down by the FBI in 1935: 2 wds. |
| TRILBY | I got my hat from a large market right by the riverside in the centre of Charminster (6) |
| RIPPLE | It might disturb one's reflections by the riverside |
| AMBER | Fossilised resin has been dug up by the riverside in Mabe (5) |
