| DRIPPY | Swim across river, getting outwardly pretty wet |
| DRIP | Swim across river getting wet (4) |
| PYROMANIA | Urge to start fires in outwardly pretty Balkan country (9) |
| COPYCAT | Outwardly pretty cadet's first in jacket, imitative sort (7) |
| DRENCH | Some children, going to church, get pretty wet! |
| SPRAT | Row across river, getting little fish (5) |
| GERIATRIC | Ginger cat and I travelling across river, getting on (9) |
| OGRESS | Monster goes mad, beginning to swim across river |
| RAPID | Hurried swim across river on the way back (5) |
| HUNGARIAN | European husband, one in Paris again, swims across river (9) |
| CHANNEL | Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English ... |
| SINUS | First to swim across the pond finds recess (5) |
| SUSIE | Youngest person to swim across the English Channel, ... Maroney |
| TWEENAGER | Child, rather cutesy, to swim across the Channel (9) |
| BREADTH | Bather swims across Dee. How far across? |
| NERVIER | Points to turbulent river, getting more jittery (7) |
| NERVES | Number about to enter river, getting cold feet (6) |
| DISTORTION | Is wrong island in the river getting the wrong picture? (10) |
| NIBBLE | Doubled bait originally put in river, getting a bite? (6) |
| DETRIMENT | Boy capsizing, one small male in river getting hurt (9) |
