| FISHSLICES | For flipping crabby types, they are perfect for anyone picking up the bass (4,6) |
| NIGHTFISHING | Casting for Ray in The Dark or trying to pick up the bass before it comes to light? (5,7) |
| LARCH | The stems of this tall deciduous conifer are perfect for binding a festive wreath (5) |
| TONGS | These handy ice picker-uppers are perfect for a party |
| ALLTHESAME | Notwithstanding, are perfect matches, every one (3,3,4) |
| QUICKENING | picking up the pace |
| IDEAL | Some of the characters in the Burnside album are perfect (5) |
| LINEDANCING | Boot Scootin' Boogie and Achy Breaky Heart are perfect accompaniments for this style of group perfor |
| PHOBIA | Irrational fear of flower found outside hotel - the type they eat in the Gaeltacht, in a manner of speaking? (6) |
| CRUSTACEA | A number of crabby types produced film on abstemious lot around Clare (9) |
| LIVEWIRES | Energetic types, they can give one a shock (4,5) |
| GPAS | 4.0s are perfect ones, for short |
| LEOS | Proud, fiery types, they say |
| MOANERS | Crabby types taking one's arm off (7) |
| SUCCOURS | Assists gullible types, they say (8) |
| TOWNIES | As urban types, they possibly own ties |
| SHELLFISH | Crabby types, drunkenly egocentric in speech |
| CARDS | Eccentric types, they come in packs (5) |
| SENSOR | Picking up the readings of Nabokov initially in Roses, going all the way back (6) |
| MISWRITE | Make error, literally picking up the perfect woman to marry |
