Introduction of water into river taking ship? There’s originality (7)
I believe the answer is:
newness
'originality' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'introduction of water into river taking ship?' is the wordplay.
'introduction of' indicates taking the first letters.
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'river' becomes 'nene' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'taking' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'ship?' becomes 'SS' (prefix in ship names eg SS Great Britain).
The first letter of 'water' is 'w'.
'w' placed within 'nene' is 'newne'.
'newne'+'ss'='NEWNESS'
'there's' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for newness that I've seen before include "Freshness" , "originality" , "Novelty" , "Fresh quality" .)