Possible Clues:

• 12 23 down's fruit to order
• One form of the Egyptian god Set
• With it, river must be connected
• Tutu wearer in "Fantasia"
• Creature requiring joint surgery brought from the East?
• Whale relative
• African animal (shortened)
• Fashionable river home for saint making confessions
• "Hungry, hungry" critter of a kid's game
• Mammoth African mammal (abbr)