| EELS | Adult elvers caught by means of sniggles, or narrow-necked purse nets/ pods (4) |
| EEL | An elver, grig or snig caught by means of basket, buck, trap, sniggle or weel; or, an elusive/evasive character who is slippery or hard to catch (3) |
| POD | A pea case; a pepper; a purse- net; a pack of porpoises; or, a paunch (3) |
| WORN | Wide or narrow in the beginning, a shoe - in more ways than one - may be this (4) |
| TRIM | Lean or narrow (4) |
| SLIT | Long or narrow cut (4) |
| THIN | Lean or narrow (4) |
| SLOT | A groove or narrow slit |
| BOSC | Narrow-necked pear |
| EELY | Like elvers |
| TROUT | A fish sometimes caught by means of tickling whose rainbow and brown species inhabit chalk streams and freshwater rivers (5) |
| BOTTLE | From the Latin for "cask, wineskin", one of the narrow-necked vessels in a wine cellar of which a butler was originally in charge; or, a word for courage, nerve or pluck (6) |
| INSULAR | From "island", a word meaning ait-like; surrounded by water; isolated or standing alone; aloof or solitary; or, narrow and prejudiced (7) |
| WATERWAY | A canal, river, or narrow channel of sea which ships or boats can sail along (8) |
| AMPHORA | Ancient Greek or Roman twohandled narrow-necked jar for wine or oil (7) |
| LECYTHUS | Thin narrow-necked vase or flask of ancient Greece (8) |
| NEARMISS | Marginal failure or narrow escape (4,4) |
| STRIPLING | Old word, facetiously hinting at the narrowness of a belt, for a mere slip of a boy, lanky young lad or narrow-framed youth, distinctively thin and svelte (9) |
| NERDS | People considered boring because of obsessive hobbies or narrow solitary interests (5) |
| ANT | Insect caught by mean tourist (3) |
