| RUDD | Fish a healthy red colour, tailless |
| RUDDY | Blooming with a healthy red colour? (5) |
| ADZUKIBEANS | Dunks a baize material into healthy red ones (6,5) |
| ANEMIC | Condition when person produces a lower than normal amount of healthy red blood cells (6) |
| BEETJUICE | Healthy red drink |
| GAFF | A hook on a stick for landing a fish; a nautical spar; a spur of a gamecock; or, old slang for a flat or a house (4) |
| COD | Word for a chap or fellow; a cushion or pillow; a gadoid food-fish; a hoax or jest; a pea husk; or, nonsense (3) |
| GILL | A respiratory organ of a fish; a female ferret; or, a small ravine (4) |
| TRUNK | A box for fish; a chest for storage or travel; an elephant's proboscis; a peashooter; or, a speaking tube (5) |
| COMBER | A long sea wave; a gaper fish; a wool-carder; or, a type of mudlark given to gathering beach jetsam (6) |
| BASS | One of the words for a flax, hemp, jute or lime fibre bag for holding an angler's fish; a powerful sea perch with a brilliant silver body; or, from "low", the lowest part in music or the deepest male |
| CHUM | A chamber-fellow, companion, comrade or crony; anglers' groundbait of chopped fish; a keta salmon; or, a former name of meaty meals prepared by Pedigree for pet pooches (4) |
| CAPONATA | Whether from a fish, a sailor's biscuit, a tavern or "tied together like vines", it's the name of an agrodolce dish of aubergines and olives but, despite being Sicilian, no lemons or limes (8) |
| ALLIGATOR | Bring up tripe, a bit of fish, a snapper (9) |
| RECTANGLE | Soak about a hundred fish - a regular sort of figure |
| SCAD | Fish a.k.a. horse mackerel |
| PIKE | A fish; a long weapon |
| WHITEBAIT | Fish a bit wet I gathered, including fish's tail |
| BLOATER | Fish a hat out for a student (7) |
| SCUP | Fish a.k.a. porgy |
