| BITTERNS | Waders scrap with other aquatic birds (8) |
| FLIPPERS | The flat broad limbs of seals, whales, penguins and other aquatic animals (8) |
| EMERGENT | Arrowhead, cat's-tail, marsh marigold, pickerel-weed, reed or other aquatic plant named for "springing forth from the plunge/dip", aka water (8) |
| MOORHENS | Small aquatic birds with mainly black plumage (8) |
| ANHINGAS | Aquatic birds, also called darters or snakebirds (8) |
| WILDFOWL | A duck, goose or swan; or, such aquatic birds collectively (8) |
| PELICANS | Plane is manoeuvred around 100 aquatic birds (8) |
| SEAGULLS | Aquatic birds who might steal your lunch |
| MATADORS | Do I get seen in a scrap with these fearless Spaniards? (8) |
| SLIPROAD | Scrap with American chap about way onto motorway (4,4) |
| DRAGROPE | Scrap with gangster finally into drug - one may pull a gun |
| WHITELIE | Scrap with priest over English falsehood |
| ODDMENTS | ... scraps with strange people on backstreet (8) |
| PENGUINS | Aquatic birds |
| BYCATCH | Unwanted fish or other aquatic creatures in a fisherman's net |
| AQUARIA | Places in which fish and other aquatic creatures are kept (7) |
| FIN | Organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals |
| EMPERORPENGUINS | Aquatic birds of the Antarctic (7,8) |
| RAKE | Aquatic birds edging away, seeing something with sharp teeth? |
| ABOLISH | Scrap with sailor losing the head with European (7) |
