| ALEWIVES | North American fishes related to the herring (8) |
| PIRANHAS | Fierce South American fishes (8) |
| RAYS | Flat-bodied fishes related to sharks (4) |
| ALEWIFE | Corpulent, migrating North American food fish related to the herring (7) |
| SHAD | Angler's catch related to the herring |
| ANCHOVIES | Small, salty fish related to the herring family, often tinned or made into a paste (9) |
| SEASCAPE | Painting or sketch of the ocean, such as Winslow Homer's Crab Fishing, On the Beach, Summer Squall or The Herring Net (8) |
| SARDINES | Small, marine food-fish of the herring family (8) |
| BRISLING | Small fish of the herring family (8) |
| PILCHARD | Small oily member of the herring family (8) |
| MENHADEN | Fish of the herring family |
| TARPON | A gigantic fish akin to the herring (6) |
| SPRAT | Small fish of the herring family (Clupeidae) also known as the brisling, found in the NE Atlantic and the North Sea (5) |
| ALOSA | Fish genus of the herring family (Clupeidae) to which the shad belongs (5) |
| ALLISSHAD | European member of the herring family which leaves the sea to spawn in rivers |
| SPRATS | Small fishes in the herring family (6) |
| OAR | The ...fish is called the "king of the herrings" (3) |
| OARFISH | Snaky vertebrate referred to as the "king of the herrings" for its crown-like appendage and supposed leading of shoals of said "silver darlings" (7) |
| SARDINE | Small fish that's a relative of the herring |
| PILCHARDS | Small, edible, commercially valuable marine fish of the herring family (9) |
