| REFLECTIVE | Like mirror carp scales (*if elver, etc.) (10) |
| LINE | Position of a linear carp's scales (7,4) |
| LATERAL | Position of a linear carp's scales (7,4) |
| STEAMY | Like mirrors you can write on |
| CLIMBINGFRAME | Scale if German designed something in playground (8,5) |
| FEVERISHLY | Redefined ?elver' ?fishy' in a delirious way |
| ORCA | Sea creature swallowed by mirror carp |
| PORKY | Monks Pit, Cambs. 55lb mirror carp - a lie? (5) |
| RANDALL | Name of Acton Burnell's largest mirror carp ('darn all!) (7) |
| EEL | A catadromous snig which is glass-like during its stage as an elver and formerly prevalent in a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (3) |
| ELVES | More than one elver, right out, among supernatural folk (5) |
| RIVER | Prolific trout waterway near Salisbury (*elver bribe) (5,5) |
| EBBLE | Prolific trout waterway near Salisbury (*elver bribe) (5,5) |
| GLASSEEL | Transparent, pre-elver stage fish (5,3) |
| LAVENDER | Five-lake fishery near Coventry (*hand all elver) (8,4) |
| HALL | Five-lake fishery near Coventry (*hand all elver) (8,4) |
| LAVERNE | Presenter Lauren showed an elver wriggling (7) |
| REVILES | Badmouths (*elver is) (7) |
| EELS | Elver and moray |
| SNIGGLE | From "young eel", a baited hook for catching an elver in its hiding place; or, to snare said grig with such a cleek (7) |
