| TEITH | Scottish fly fishing river, tributary of the Forth (5) |
| LAVER | N.Yorks fly-fishing river, tributary of Skell - and red seaweed (5) |
| SHEPHERD | Gus ___, Scottish fly-fishing international (died 2018) (8) |
| HEADLEY | Stan, Scottish Fly Champ 1990 /team manager (*he delay) (7) |
| OSAGE | ___ River, tributary of the Missouri River in the US that flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoir (5) |
| EBBLE | Fly-fishing river near Salisbury - bit of fine b-bleak! (5) |
| NAIRN | Fly fishing river draining into Moray Firth (*ran in) (5) |
| SHEAF | Sheffield's underground river, tributary of the Don (* H. safe) (5) |
| GLYME | Oxfordshire river, tributary of the Evenlode (*my leg) (5) |
| ITHON | Welsh river, tributary of the Wye - in strait, honest! (5) |
| TWEED | Salmon fishing river rising in the Scottish Borders and flowing into the North Sea at Berwick in Northumberland (5) |
| RYTON | Worksop's river, tributary of River Idle (*no try) (5) |
| BAKER | Engineer who designed the Forth Bridge with Sir John Fowler; or, the author of The Peregrine (5) |
| WYATT | Architect in the neo-Gothic style who designed Fonthill Abbey, the forth version of Belvoir Castle and remodelled parts of Windsor Castle (5) |
| ALLOA | Arrange everything on account of town on the Forth (5) |
| ANNAN | Game-fishing river in Dumfriesshire (5) |
| CONWY | Game fishing river, runs through Betws-y-coed (5) |
| AIRTH | Beginning of new life - exchanging Edinburgh centre for a smaller town on the Forth (5) |
| CLYDE | The Forth and ___ Canal crosses central Scotland (5) |
| PICT | Member of any of the peoples who lived in Britain north of the Forth and Clyde between the 1st and 4 |
