| FINISHINGSCHOOL | Refinery, as it were, in ... in trying to catch ... a lot of fish (9-6) |
| NET | Item that can catch a lot of fish at once |
| CHASE | Word for a game preserve, a hunt or the quarry pursued; a horse race with obstacles; or, a group of cyclists in a peloton trying to catch those in the breakaway (5) |
| PERCAPITA | A type of bread covered with a lot of fish for each person (3,6) |
| ALLIER | One making friends, as it were, in part of the Auvergne (6) |
| CREPERIE | A lot of fish served up in front of lake restaurant |
| PAPRIKA | A pair enthralled by a lot of fish with a red pepper (7) |
| OTTERS | You're to take rest and eat a lot of fish (6) |
| LEWIS | Snowman, as it were, in the French fashion, to work the other way (5,5) |
| IBIS | A boy is trying to catch a wading bird (4) |
| SEEKING | Trying to catch a glimpse of monarch |
| TUNA | The Spanish catch a lot of it |
| SCHOOLWORK | A lot of fish to transfer finally into pan is child's responsibility |
| SHOAL | There's nothing in half the shallows but a lot of fish (5) |
| PELICAN | One eats a lot of fish, large one in some pie filling |
| NITWIT | He's stupid in trying to open it without a key (6) |
| VILLETTE | Small town, as it were, in French work of fiction |
| BROADS | They may go sideways, as it were, in Norfolk (6) |
| GROUNDRULE | Lure as it were in basic principle? (6,4) |
| DROOP | Medic facing no hospital work, as it were, in decline (5) |
