| TOADSTOOLS | Fungi such as fly agaric (10) |
| ANGLING | Pursuit such as fly-fishing (7) |
| REELS | Devices such as fly, centrepin and big pit (5) |
| TINEA | Diseases caused by fungi, such as athlete's foot (5) |
| ERGOT | Group of fungi such as that which grows on rye and related plants |
| DRYROT | Timber decay caused by fungi such as Serpula lacrymans, typically occurring in poorly ventilated buildings (3,3) |
| ASCOMYCETES | Fungi, such as yeast, penicillium and truffles, in which the spores are formed inside a club-shaped cell |
| ASCUS | A spore-bearing sac in fungi such as yeasts and mildews (5) |
| AMANITA | A genus of fungi that includes the blusher, death cap, destroying angel, or fool's mushroom, fly agaric, grisette and panther cap (7) |
| GAY | Fly agaric, returned for bright and cheerful bit (3) |
| TOADSTOOL | Fly agaric or deathcap, eg |
| NODDY | Famously agreeable bell-hatted fellow, fond of zipping around Toyland in a little red-and-yellow roadster and visiting a big-eared gnome in a fly agaric toadstool tenement (5) |
| SHAG | Chase, as fly balls |
| BEATEN | Play as fly-half - unsuccessfully? |
| SHAGS | Goes after, as fly balls |
| TEMPORARY | Sorrowful about politician and other men as fly-by-nights? |
| TENTACLE | Beastly type out on a limb as fly-half in front of tackle misses first kick (8) |
| STANDOFF | Position also known as fly-half or outside-half (5-3) |
| WHIRR | Soft sound e.g. of reel as fly-line is cast (5) |
| BENNETT | Phil, rugby union player born in 1948 who played as fly-half for Llanelli and Wales (7) |
