| ABLET | Another name for the bleak, a freshwater fish (5) |
| BLAY | The bleak, a small fish (4) |
| OSAKA | From the East, somewhat bleak, a southern Japanese city |
| TENCH | A freshwater fish of the carp family (5) |
| PERCH | A freshwater fish found in the budgie's cage (5) |
| TROUT | A freshwater fish of the salmon genus (5) |
| IDEST | That is a freshwater fish, by the way |
| TROTS | Trustee went off with a freshwater fish (5) |
| LOACH | In lake, a freshwater fish |
| DARKE | Harold, composer of the popular setting to the carol In the Bleak Mid-winter (5) |
| HOLST | Composer who set the poem "In the Bleak Midwinter" to music |
| AGLOW | The bleak can begin to thaw! (5) |
| RAVEN | He came "in the bleak December" |
| OASIS | Tract in a sandy desert such as the Sahara with a freshwater aquifer or spring and date palms or other vegetation (5) |
| PEARL | Gem ranging in colour from the white Akoya, golden South Sea or black Tahitian varieties of an oyster to the pink, peach or lavender examples of a freshwater mussel (5) |
| BREAM | A freshwater cyprinid fish of the genus Abramis |
| LUCY | Another name for the pike, a freshwater fish (4) |
| GREBE | A freshwater diving bird (5) |
| OTTER | A freshwater carnivorous musteline mammal such as Lutra lutra (5) |
| ORFE | What completes the name golden ___, a freshwater fish of the carp family? (4) |
