| MUCUS | E.g. a fish's slimy secretion (5) |
| SCALE | Thin plate on a fish's skin (5) |
| BULGE | A fish's eyes may ___, if brought from depth too quickly (5) |
| SCALY | Like a fish's outers |
| GILLS | They're found on the side of a fish's head |
| HOOKS | Bell, the feminist luminary with lower case names who wrote "All About Love" (or stuff of a fish's nightmares, buried in bait) |
| TAIL | A posterior extremity, such as a bird's train of feathers, a dog's flag, a fish's caudal fin, a fox's brush, an otter's rudder or a rabbit's scut (4) |
| MUCOSAE | Membranes with slimy secretions |
| MERMAID | A mythical siren, water nymph or literal "sea woman", in the form of a beautiful undine with a fish's tail (7) |
| ERRING | Removing a fish's head is making a mistake (6) |
| SCALED | Cleaned a fish's skin, eg |
| SASHIMI | Fish dish? I miss a fish's tail in a stew |
| MERMAIDS | In stories, these have a woman's body and a fish's tail (8) |
| MERMAIDENS | Mythical marine creatures, with a woman's upper body and a fish's tail (10) |
| FINLIKE | Resembling a fish's appendage |
| DORSALFIN | Stabilising appendage on a fish's back (6,3) |
| DORSAL | -- fin, found on a fish's back (6) |
| GILL | Part of a fish's respiratory system |
| ANAL | __ fin (appendage near a fish's tail) |
| SCALES | Plates on a fish's body (6) |
