| GOA | "Time is but the stream I ___-fishing in": Thoreau |
| AUTHORISE | Is found in Thoreau originally? Okay |
| MAESTRI | Flowing stream, I follow the experts (7) |
| TENDRIL | Look after stream - I hear it helps plant grow (7) |
| SALMON | 2011 film with Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor, _ Fishing In The Yemen (6) |
| TROUT | "___ Fishing in America" (Richard Brautigan) (5) |
| ULTIMATE | ___ Fishing, £30k competition at Cob House in May (8) |
| ANGLER | The Compleat ___, fishing book (6) |
| MACEY | Dean ___, fishing guru, ex-Olympic decathlete (5) |
| DROPSHOT | ___ ___ fishing uses light tackle, soft lure (*short pod) (4,4) |
| EXTREME | ___ Fishing with Robson Green, Channel 5 angling programme |
| DEEPSEA | ___ fishing (ocean outing for an angler): Hyph. |
| TIDE | Moon ___ Fishing ,NZ angling series based on Maori lunar calendar (4) |
| ELIOT | "To be a poet is have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion-a |
| ASCHOOL | "The world is but ___ of inquiry" (Montaign) |
| AIRMAIL | Two things Charles is but Camilla isn't, in speech to deliver abroad? (7) |
| PAINE | Patriot who said "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil" |
| ABUNDANT | Rank is but an arrangement for holding a degree in karate (8) |
| SOLO | What no man is, but I am! (4) |
| RELIC | At 50, rice is but a surviving trace of the past (5) |
