| CORDOBA | City ace on end of line, old boy |
| LAGNIAPPE | City ace in Epping sent up small gift |
| CARDIFF | City ace, maybe, one starts to find fifth-rate |
| RAGE | See red bit of cloth on end of line |
| ROWLING | Author has fish on end of line |
| EISENHOWER | Stormy on end of line - where is the president? (10) |
| PAYPHONE | Deliriously happy on end of line in call-box? (8) |
| FOUNDATIONSTONE | Ceremonial block located on end of line under new station (10,5) |
| COPE | Successfully deal with catch on end of line (4) |
| WORM | Bait Mike put on end of line, twisting |
| ELOPS | Fish hangs loosely on end of line |
| CODE | Cryptic signal by fish on end of line (4) |
| NOONEELSE | Just this person, 12, getting fish on end of line (2,3,4) |
| WATS | ___ line (old mode of "free" calling) |
| ILPENSEROSO | Melancholy character of writer - in one line old wounds recalled |
| LOVAT | On line, old tank was painted a greyishgreen colour? (5) |
| CITIZENKANE | Movie with the line "Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of" |
| FIRING | "___ Line" (old William F. Buckley Jr. show) |
| ROCK | The ___ Island Line (old railroad) |
| CLIPPER | Tool for trimming line; old, fast sailing ship (7) |
