| MAHER | Ex-cricketer/national fly champ and instructor (*be he mariner?) (6,5) |
| BERNIE | Ex-cricketer/national fly champ and instructor (*be he mariner?) (6,5) |
| HIGA | Daigo former world fly champ and thrice bantamweight challenger. (4) |
| MENTEITH | Scottish lake, venue of National Fly Fishing Champs (*I net them) (8) |
| TEACHER | Drink with singer and instructor (7) |
| THIRDPERSON | He's the one stopped by Ancient Mariner? |
| GRAEMESWANN | England ex-cricketer taking part in Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins (6,5) |
| YANNICKNOAH | 1983 French Open champ & 2025 Laver Cup Team Europe captain |
| HEADLEY | Stan, Scottish Fly Champ 1990 /team manager (*he delay) (7) |
| IAIN | ___ Barr, ex World Fly Champ, fished for England over 28 times (4) |
| IAINBARR | ___ ___, ex double World Fly Champ (*air brain!) (4,4) |
| ORBE | "Be he alive ___ he dead": "Fe Fi Fo Fum" |
| CURST | 'And ___ be he that moves my bones.' (Shakespeare's grave epitaph ending) |
| ESTO | Let him be, he shall be (fut. imp.), eg ____ laetus (it is Christmas, after all) |
| POSEIDON | A god's name! All Greek to me and all at sea be he mythically! (8) |
| EDMUNDS | Sam ___, England Ladies Loch Style Fly Champ 2018, 2019 (7) |
| IMRANKHAN | Ex-cricketer and ex-husband of Jemima Goldsmith (5,4) |
| PRONOUNCEMENT | Could be he is to make firm statement (13) |
| BEING | Lying in wait, clutching mother-to-be, he appears shifty (5,10,4,3,5) |
| ATHERWITSEND | Utterly perplexed as she may be, he treats wind casually |
