| CARPETBAG | Fish in France and net a carrier |
| FREELANCER | Fish in France for a selfemployed person (10) |
| POISON | Fish in France with central part removed has venom (6) |
| BUNT | Baggy centre of a sail or net; a push with horns; a gentle tap of a pitched baseball; or, a manoeuvre in which a pilot draws a half circle in the sky (4) |
| RETIARIUS | Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a fisherman, a net, a trident and a dagg |
| FRET | A coastal fog or haar; a heraldic charge representing the meshes of a fishing net; a meander or Greek key pattern; or, one of the ridges across a guitar, lute or viol's fingerboard (4) |
| POD | A pea case; a pepper; a purse- net; a pack of porpoises; or, a paunch (3) |
| TAKE | In his net, a keen angler can catch a fish? (4) |
| LEAP | Dialect for a basket, an eel trap or a wicker net; a waterfall ascended by salmon; or, a melodic interval (4) |
| ATANEND | Net a smash in and it is finished (2,2,3) |
| CATCHACRAB | Net a crustacean and have a bad row? (5,1,4) |
| SIMONPETER | I'm in a tangle of rope and nets, being a fisherman (5,5) |
| TENNIS | Game in which "fault" and "net" are reviewed (6) |
| ENTANGLEMENT | Gentleman and net involved in mix-up |
| HOSTAGE | A great multitude could take a long time to net a prisoner (7) |
| MESH | Word for the opening or interstice between threads of a net; a network; a trap; or, any interlaced structure (4) |
| DRIFT | Set of fishing nets; a controlled skid as a way to corner at high speed in motor racing; or, a blanket of leaves or snow (5) |
| SEINE | A fishing net; a river |
| IMITATE | Caught in net, a timid, recoiling ape |
| KIDDLES | Word from Anglo-Norman for fish-weirs consisting of dams or hedges of wattles, stakes and nets in rivers or streams (7) |
