| REELIN | Land a fish |
| ITIN | How to land a fish? See a song by Amine! (4,2,2) |
| REEL | How to land a fish? See a song by Amine! (4,2,2) |
| SHAD | Land a fish (4) |
| CHAD | Land a fish (4) |
| STURGEON | Doctor taking time to land a fish t hat's ... (8) |
| REELSIN | Winds back line to land a fish (5,2) |
| CHINE | From "pin, thorn", word for a beast's vertebral column; a cut/chop of this for cooking; otherwise, an angle in a ship's hull, a crest of land, a deep Dorset ravine, a mountain ridge, a projecting rim |
| NOD | With allusion to a Genesiac land, a short sleep or nap; or, a gesture that is as "good as a wink to a blind horse", according to a proverb (3) |
| AREA | Originally meaning "space allocated for a specific purpose", a word for the extent/measurement of a surface or piece of land; a field of study; or, a geographical region (4) |
| TROUTFARM | Some trawl a long way from land - a mile - to find a supply of fish (5,4) |
| STITCH | A pain in the side said to be eased with the chickweed-like herb starwort; a ridge of land; a shock of corn; or, a knitter's purl, surgeon's suture, tailor's tack or other loop of thread (6) |
| NEER | "A woman is a foreign land ... a man will ___ quite understand" (Coventry Patmore) |
| SEED | From the Old English for "sow", a word for a plant ovule; clover/grass grown from such; sown land; a first principle; origin; or, offspring (4) |
| ARMENIA | Land a marine in a mess |
| APPROACH | Prepare to land a very quiet fish |
| GAFF | Land a large fish |
| TERRA | A foreign land, a rascal said (5) |
| AIRPORT | Where you land a good right and then a left |
| HEDGE | Originally planted to divide land, a word linked with "row" for a bushy type of habitat forming the British countryside (5) |
