| NAUCRATIS | What, situated on the delta of the Nile, was the first Greek settlement in Egypt? (9) |
| OMDURMAN | Which city on the White Nile was the site of Lord Kitchener's 1898 victory over the Mahdist? (8) |
| AXIAL | Relax, I altered some bits describing what's situated on the main line |
| IONIA | Greek settlement in Asia Minor |
| ARTESIANWELL | Nile was later diverted to give underground supply of water (8,4) |
| ASTRAKHAN | City in Russia on the delta of the Volga River associated with a type of fur (9) |
| HIROSHIMA | Japanese port on Honshu, on the delta of the Ota River (9) |
| ROTTERDAM | Major Dutch port situated at the delta of the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt rivers (9) |
| OILRIVERS | The delta of the Niger, in Nigeria (3,6) |
| ASWANDAMP | Wet weather report in Egypt? |
| AGAMEMNON | Soon to host match, making first Greek hero (9) |
| ALPHA | The first Greek letter that, with the second letter "beta", forms the origin of the name given to a system of letters we use to write (5) |
| BENGAL | Former province of N.E. India in the deltas of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers (6) |
| ERASMUS | Desiderius ___, Dutch humanist who published the first Greek edition of the New Testament in 1516 (7 |
| ALFA | Homophone of the first Greek letter formed by two different sets of four consecutive letters in "alfalfa" |
| ANAIS | Name on the "Delta of Venus" byline |
| CHAOS | The original state of existence from which the first Greek gods appeared (5) |
| RHONE | France's Camargue region is mainly the delta of the ____ (5) |
| NAPOLI | Italian name for the capital of Campania; a city that evolved from the Ancient Greek settlement Part |
| EXODUS | Which Old Testament book recounts the escape of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt? (6) |
