| HUNTERGATHERER | Watch collector, one who forages and fishes etc. (6-8) |
| RESINER | Tree-sap collector - one who gets up, up around Aberdeenshire (7) |
| ALBINOS | Fishes, etc lacking pigment (*no basil) (7) |
| BROWN | Orcadian author whose books include the poetry collection Loaves and Fishes, the novel Magnus and essay selection Rockpools and Daffodils (5) |
| GATHERED | Was a collector, one understood (8) |
| MERMAIDS | Name imaginary female marine creatures having women's heads and fishes' tails (8) |
| LOAVES | - and fishes, miraculous food distributed by Jesus (6) |
| GLEANER | Refuse collector, one dependent on string? (7) |
| GRIM | Unrelenting fairy tale collector, one might say |
| GATHERS | Is a collector, one deduces (7) |
| MIRACLEMEAL | Loaves and fishes, in a Bible story? |
| PUBLICAN | Old tax-collector one's seen in the bar |
| STINGRAYS | Overcharge for beams and fishes (9) |
| MIRACLE | Loaves-and-fishes event, e.g. |
| FIVETHOUSAND | Apostles sadly refused to put loaves and fishes out for them? |
| STRANGLES | The saint has the right and fishes until he chokes |
| HEDGEHOG | Prickly "urchin" immortalised as Mrs Tiggy-Winkle that nosily forages by night; or, a way of serving cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks, or presenting marzipan (8) |
| FOIEGRAS | One breaks into building, forages for food (4,4) |
| FENUGREEK | Heavily scented Mediterranean plant with hairy stems and white flowers, cultivated for forage and its medicinal seeds (9) |
| MANNAFROMHEAVEN | Loaves and fishes |
