| TRIBUTARIES | Streams or rivers that feed other, larger ones (11) |
| MEMBERS | All ___ of the pack take care of the pups, sick and elderly even regurgitating their food to help feed other members |
| PILOTLIGHTS | Small flames lighting larger ones (5,6) |
| VERMIVOROUS | Zoological description for animals that feed on worms (11) |
| DIVINGDUCKS | Family of birds that feed underwater (6,5) |
| ENSIGNWASPS | Solitary insects that feed on cockroaches (commissioned Navy officer ranks) |
| WATERCOURSE | Stream or canal (11) |
| SPRINGS | Word for fountains, spas, streams or other places of rising, hence airborne pronks, ascending flocks of teal, rocketing leaps, upwardly boinging elastic coils or other rising things (7) |
| OHIO | One of the rivers that gave Three Rivers Stadium its name |
| STAIRCASES | Structures enclosing flights of treads and risers between floors or storeys; or, chains of locks on canals or rivers, appearing as if in steps (10) |
| WATERBIRD | Flying creature that lives near lakes or rivers (5-4) |
| PRAWN | Food from sea or river that pop's catching |
| SHOOTS | Buds, scions, sprouts or tendrons; weft threads; rapids in streams; or, photographic sessions (6) |
| CURRENTS | Streams, or a 2015 Tame Impala album |
| FISH | Vertebrate of stew ponds, oceans, reefs, chalk streams or aquariums (4) |
| TIGRIS | Eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates |
| WHITENILE | One of two rivers that merge in Khartoum (5,4) |
| STYX | Last of rivers that many cross? |
| DELTAS | Parts of rivers that could well be salted (6) |
| CARRYON | California rivers that have no end |
