Complete Clue List
Across
1. Flow from.
5. Common to Cumbria, Angus and Dumfries.
8. Symbol for rare-earth metal extracted from monazite from the beaches of Travancore, India.
9. A country's length by breadth
10. River in south central Netherlands.
11. Formed by sediment deposits.
12. Poetic form often used in tributes to rivers.
14. Homonym for killed violently (pl).
17. Lease
19. Country code for the birthplace of the author of "The Blue Danube Waltz".
20. Freshwater crayfish often found in a Cajun grandma' s gumbo.
21. What Ella Fitzgerald, Justin Timberlake, and Bjork would all do to make a river.
23. Tributary of the Congo River.
24. River of the bearded bard.
26. Country code for the nation where the Marañón, Huallaga, and Ucayali rivers flow.
27. Code for the country of the river which passes through the Chernobyl contamination zone.
28. Site of the ruined city of Mangazeya.
29. From the Latin word "aestuarium".
Down
1. Series of armed conflicts occurring in England from 1642 to 1651 (abbrev.)
2. Wander aimlessly.
3. Splits into the Rosetta and Damietta branches.
4. Drainage areas of rivers, sometimes artificial, subject to the ebb and flow of tides. (5,6)
5. Greek public broadcaster (init.)
6. May be Norwegian or Irish.
7. River in Nigeria.
9. Genus of flowering plants found near rivers, streams and wetlands.
12. Fierce imaginary sea creature, not to be confused with orca, which does swim upriver occasionally.
13. Girl's name
15. A safe haven for boats, not necessarily by the sea (UK).
16. A pen for swine.
18. A miniature whirlpool.
22. Its basin is where the Goguryeo kingdom rose to power.
23. Parrot found in New Zealand lowland river valleys.
25. A negative answer.
26. Symbol for a chemical element occurring naturally in the alluvial sands of some rivers.