| DYSONRIG | Up-in-the-water set-up for eels/predators (*sign, dory) (5,3) |
| EAGLEOWL | Predator sign beginning to wave in terrible gale (5,3) |
| DYSON | ___ rig, free-running set-up for eels - in windy Sonning (5) |
| RIG | Free-running set-up for eel fishing (*so dry gin) (5,3) |
| SARGASSO | Sea in the western Atlantic known as a breeding ground for eels (8) |
| ANGUILLA | Island in the Caribbean whose name derives from the Latin word for eel (8) |
| SNIGGLES | Fishes for eels by pushing hooks into holes where they hide |
| PERISCOPE | Prose epic deconstructed something coming up in the water (9) |
| EGRET | Heron that turns up in the water, generally (5) |
| SURFACE | A rudd, say, that takes bait up in the water (7,6) |
| FEEDER | A rudd, say, that takes bait up in the water (7,6) |
| AFLOAT | Keeping up in the water, thanks to loaf disintegrating (6) |
| DUNK | ___ tank (carnival attraction where someone may end up in the water) |
| REDSEA | A reed's washed up in the water (3,3) |
| SPRING | Something coiled up in the water (6) |
| GREATWHITESHARK | Seal hunter's boat, after high water, set off (5,5,5) |
| LITRE | Some water set on fire, flaming endlessly (5) |
| SNIGGLE | Good repeatedly to enter small river to fish for eels |
| PLASTEROFPARIS | Gypsum which when mixed with water sets quickly (7,2,5) |
| SEAS | Homes for eels |
