| GRILSE | Young salmon that returns to fresh water after one winter in the sea (6) |
| SALMON | Migrating fish that return to fresh water to reproduce (6) |
| MUNROS | All 282 of these achieved over one winter season this year (6) |
| GILLIE | He might pouch a salmon - part of a salmon, that is |
| SKIING | Second monarch to adopt one winter sport |
| STEELHEAD | Silvery North Pacific variety of the rainbow trout that migrates to the sea before returning to fresh water to spawn (9) |
| REBECCA | Daphne du Maurier novel named after the first Mrs de Winter in the book (7) |
| HARDY | Able to withstand the cold of winter in the open air, as plants |
| AMISH | The people living in this village have to walk more than a mile to fresh water |
| HOMINGPIGEON | Bird that returns to the loft (6,6) |
| ANNAWELLS | Who became the first woman to reach the top of all Scotlands 282 Munros in one winter season? (4,5) |
| SPRINGER | The type of fresh-run salmon that most anglers long to catch (8) |
| FALL | Fellow gets everything in season before winter in the US (4) |
| VENTOSE | Last month of winter in the French Revolutionary calendar, starting in late February; from Latin, 'windy' (7) |
| SEATROUT | Salmon-like fish that also migrates from salt to fresh water (3,5) |
| RETRIEVER | Dog, one that returns to gobble one up |
| SEAL | Aquatic fish-eating mammal that returns to shore to breed |
| SEATURTLE | Creature that returns to the beach where it was born for laying eggs |
| INTERVIEWER | One conducting head-to-head one winter, ever-changeable (11) |
| EGYPT | Pyramid-famous country that's competed in just one Winter Games (5) |
