| DERWENT | The name of four rivers and two reservoirs in northern England |
| OUST | Name of four rivers in the UK including the "great" and "little" (4) |
| OUSE | Any one of the UK's four rivers whose name simply means "water" (4) |
| PORTRAY | Picture four rivers, one flowing into another (7) |
| SAN | Part of the name of four of the twenty most populous U.S. cities |
| WAR | Part of the name of four Preakness winners |
| CHARLES | The name of four kings of Spain (7) |
| ARKROYAL | The name of four Royal Navy aircraft carriers |
| CITY | Part of the names of four state capitals |
| TAYLORSVERSION | Phrase in the names of four chart-topping albums released since 2021 |
| NEW | Word that begins the names of four US states |
| SPLENDID | HMS ___, name of four ships of the Royal Navy, the last of which, a submarine, was decommissioned in |
| RHEINMAIN | German name of the metropolitan area in Hesse around the confluence of two rivers and of the former US airbase (5-4) |
| EWER | What's holding the water from overflowing the banks of reservoirs in Zimbabwe? (4) |
| OTTO | Name of four Holy Roman Emperors, the last of which was deposed in 1215 (4) |
| BROADS | The -; network of rivers and lakes in Norfolk and Suffolk, setting of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club and The Big Six (6) |
| AMENHOTEP | Name of four kings of Egypt (the fourth one became Akhenaten) (9) |
| BELUGA | Also called white whale, this small, toothed whale is found mainly in the coastal waters of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas but also in rivers and deep offshore waters. It has also been referred to |
| TIBER | It is one of Europe's historic rivers and the second longest Italian river after the Po, rising on the slope of Monte Fumaiolo. In Julius Caesar (act 1, scene 2), Cassius says, "For once, upon a raw a |
| CINZANO | Brand name of four types of Italian vermouth |
