| GIFU | Landlocked prefecture in Honshu noted for cormorant fishing along the Nagara River (4) |
| KOFU | Capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture in Honshu, Japan (4) |
| TRAWL | A dragnet; an act of fishing along the seabed with said bag- or sock-shaped seine; thus, a thorough comb, fish or search for information, whether on the Net or in the depths of one's brain (5) |
| SMACK | Vessel used in fishing along the British coast (5) |
| DIVERTS | Provides amusement for cormorant, say, with empty taunts (7) |
| TONGA | Wings much reduced for cormorant on Galapagos Islands |
| NAHA | Capital of the Okinawa Prefecture in Japan (4) |
| SHAG | Another name for the cormorant, especially the green cormorant (4) |
| SHUT | Bar locks in Honshu tourist (4) |
| KOBE | City in Honshu, Japan |
| RANT | Some cormorants in a storm (4) |
| BIRD | Cardinal or cormorant |
| TSUSHIMA | Largest island of Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture, in the Korea Strait between Japan and South Korea (8) |
| OSAKA | City in Honshu, the second largest in Japan (5) |
| ISE | City in Honshu housing the most sacred Shinto shrine in Japan (3) |
| IKEDA | City in Honshu, Japan on the Ina River that is an industrial and residential suburb of Osaka (5) |
| HAIKU | Poetrys tops in Honshu and in Kyushu universities (5) |
| KYOTO | City in Honshu (pop about 1.5 million), once the imperial capital of Japan (5) |
| NIIGATA | Port in Honshu, Japan on the Shinano and Agano rivers (7) |
| DISNEYLAND | 500 yen raised and invested in Honshu, perhaps, for amusement park (10) |
