| DEVELOPS | Spreads river across five docks (8) |
| HENLEY | The Bay Run runs parallel to this street in Five Dock/Rodd Point (6,6,5) |
| MARINE | The Bay Run runs parallel to this street in Five Dock/Rodd Point (6,6,5) |
| DRIVE | The Bay Run runs parallel to this street in Five Dock/Rodd Point (6,6,5) |
| AAR | River across the Lake of Brienz |
| NILE | Long river Across |
| RAMAPO | River across the New York/New Jersey border |
| STLAURENT | River across Quebec, in Quebec |
| SAAR | River across France into Germany |
| SAR | River across the French/German border |
| EAST | River across Manhattan from the Hudson |
| PLATTE | River across Nebraska |
| GRIMMER | More ghastly ingrained dirt by river across motorway |
| HIMALAYAS | From the Sanskrit meaning abode of snow and stretching across five countries, a mountain range containing Everest and Kangchenjunga (9) |
| SALTO | Second-largest city of Uruguay, on the Uruguay River across from Concordia, Argentina (5) |
| THEBARDOFAVON | National treasure by a river across the Border (3,4,2,4) |
| STYX | Greek Underworld river across which Charon ferried the souls of the dead (4) |
| BARHOPPING | Friday night activity, or a hint to a three-letter word spread evenly across five squares in 17-, 23-, 35- and 46-Across |
| EDDYMERCKX | Belgian bicycle racer whose eleven Grand Tour wins include the "17 Across" five times |
| NATHAN | With 33-Across five-time Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer whose mother was born in Hong Kong |
