| PARASITIC | Like e.g. a leech (*it is a carp!) (9) |
| EPHEMERAL | Short-lived, like e.g. a mayfly (9) |
| PREVIEWED | Like e.g. a product or film seen before becoming widely available (9) |
| PRESIDENT | Offer to bring a carp-like fish to a head of state (9) |
| IDEALISED | To have sailed away with a carp-like fish can be unrealistic (9) |
| RAPACIOUS | Cooking a carp, promises to be greedy (9) |
| ERICSLAKE | A carp/catfish water at Shatterford Lakes (*a ski creel) (5,4) |
| SCEPTICAL | Like e.g. Thomas Cook plc - it's ace! (9) |
| ANAEROBIC | Like e.g. sprinting writer after running on area (9) |
| ORNAMENTS | Typically small, decorative objects like e.g. figurines (9) |
| DOCTOR | An old word for a teacher; slang for a ship's cook; a cool sea breeze in a warm country, thought conducive to health; a surgeonfish; a "sawbones" known to the Anglo-Saxons as a leech; brown sherry; or |
| DRIVEIN | Like, eg, a cinema for motorists in the US |
| BLEEPING | Sounding like, eg, a pager |
| FRACTAL | Like, eg, a Mandelbrot set |
| WHIPPY | Flexible like e.g. a slow action fly rod (6) |
| EXPIRED | Like e.g. a fishing licence past its final date (7) |
| CHRONOLOGICAL | Like e.g. a text recording events in the order in which they occurred (13) |
| PARASITE | Peel off covering as it is a leech (8) |
| KOI | Like a goldfish, like a carp |
| BLOODSUCKER | Blocks our Ed as a bit of a leech (11) |
