| LUCY | Another name for the pike, a freshwater fish (4) |
| ROSAMUND | _ Pike, a United Kingdom actress (8) |
| BAITSPIKE | Barbed pin for hair-rigging - *pikes a bit confused! (4,5) |
| ORFE | What completes the name golden ___, a freshwater fish of the carp family? (4) |
| EYED | Watched like a hawk or a freshwater fish, in a manner of speaking (4) |
| DACE | A freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body (4) |
| CARP | Ontario village near Ottawa which shares the name of a freshwater fish |
| PIKE | Spear - a freshwater fish (4) |
| ESOX | Grey-green freshwater fish of the pike family (4) |
| AGAR | A freshwater fish used in making soups? |
| CHUB | A freshwater fish |
| UNIO | A genus or Latin name, thought to derive from "one" or "solitaire", in reference to a diamond set by itself, of a freshwater pearl mussel (4) |
| TOWS | Helps off the pike |
| ABLET | Another name for the bleak, a freshwater fish (5) |
| POND | Bathed in by blackbirds, inhabited by frogs, newts and water boatmen and depicted in paintings by Monet, a freshwater habitat, smaller than a lake (4) |
| TEAL | Late hatching for a freshwater duck |
| TROUTLING | A fry of a freshwater fish with a rainbow species, sometimes caught via a method of "tickling" (9) |
| IDEST | That is a freshwater fish, by the way |
| TENCH | A freshwater fish of the carp family (5) |
| PERCH | A freshwater fish found in the budgie's cage (5) |
