Daughter standing by river in finale? (To be continued ...) (7)
I believe the answer is:
endured
'continued' is the definition.
(enduring is a kind of continuing)
'daughter standing by river in finale?' is the wordplay.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'standing by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'river' becomes 'ure' (River Ure).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'finale?' becomes 'end' (the end of a story or show).
'd'+'ure'='dure'
'dure' inserted within 'end' is 'ENDURED'.
'to be' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for endured that I've seen before include "Withstood" , "Put up with something" , "Bore; put up with" , "Carried on" , "Patiently suffered" .)