| DECAPOD | Lobster last month joined up with a shoal of whiting |
| INITIAL | Opening in it, I joined up with a novice (7) |
| SCULL | A shallow kipe or basket for grain, herring, peats, potatoes, turnips etc; a shoal of migrating fish; or, one of a pair of spoon-bladed oars for propelling a racing shell of the same name (5) |
| RUN | Show a film of a shoal of fish (3) |
| SCHOOL | A shoal of whales, for example (6) |
| PARTY | Social gathering or soiree; or, a shoal of rainbow fish (5) |
| BAR | A block of chocolate, gold or soap; a measure in music; a counter in a cafe/pub; a shoal; or, a court of law (3) |
| NARWHAL | Marine mammal having dashed backwards to get first of whiting, a fraction short |
| PUTTY | Mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil used as a building fixative (5) |
| GASTRONOMICALLY | Tail of whiting hugely in fashion for foodies? (15) |
| ORGAN | Perhaps fin or tail of whiting are broken at the end (5) |
| COD | Fish family of whiting and haddock (3) |
| DECIMETRE | Last month I joined up with soldiers in unit (9) |
| ROUTEMAPS | With their aid, travelling west from spa, joined up with our members |
| EARNED | Listener joined up with bushranger Kelly and received a salary (6) |
| PILCHARD | A herring-like fish or young sardine forming a shoal traditionally signalled by a Cornish huer (8) |
| SANDBAR | In oceanography, a naturally submerged ridge, also called a shoal (7) |
| SURABAYA | A shoal covered with Japanese fishes, all around Javan port |
| JACK | ___ Whitehall, comic who, in a first for 1A, joined up with his dad, 43A to look at their family tree (4) |
| NETWORKED | Joined up with journalist pursuing goal to be successful |
