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Express piffle ethos held (5)

Cavalcade unfortunately left everyone behind (5)

LEFT+E*

Swift taking in ĺoads of seamen? (5)

False teeth unevenly nippy (5)

Flower inspired street of shame (5)

There is a River Fleet - best described (aptly) as an underground sewer!

Tyke, I crossed Blackfriars Bridge today where the Fleet meets the Thames… as you say it is now unfortunately confined to a Victorian sewer and is but a trickle.

Thanks Jono - I like to think it may have been a salmon stream many years ago!

Farringdon Street is basically the route of the Fleet and where it crosses over Fleet Street / Ludgate there used to be a bridge. Even today you can picture where the bridge was.
In Roman times the Fleet was navigable by ship.

Fast and slippery animal turns up in empty fort (5)

slippery animal = EEL = LEE

empty fort = FT

Time to leave in a hurry before arrival of armada (5)

FLEE T