| ALEWIFE | Fish in the herring family |
| SHAD | Fish in the herring family |
| SPRATS | Small fishes in the herring family (6) |
| SPRAT | Small fish of the herring family (Clupeidae) also known as the brisling, found in the NE Atlantic and the North Sea (5) |
| ALOSA | Fish genus of the herring family (Clupeidae) to which the shad belongs (5) |
| ALLISSHAD | European member of the herring family which leaves the sea to spawn in rivers |
| ANCHOVY | Small edible Mediterranean fish of the herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), usually preserved in salt and oil (7) |
| SARDINES | Small, marine food-fish of the herring family (8) |
| BRISLING | Small fish of the herring family (8) |
| MENHADEN | Fish of the herring family |
| PILCHARD | Small marine food fish of the herring family |
| SARDINE | A small oily fish of the herring family (7) |
| ANCHOVIES | Small, salty fish related to the herring family, often tinned or made into a paste (9) |
| PILCHARDS | Small, edible, commercially valuable marine fish of the herring family (9) |
| ALEWIVES | Fishes of the herring family |
| ALE | Word for a beverage, feast or festival that, when coupled with bench, bush, cost, draper, hoof, house or wife, refers to a tavern pew, a hostelry sign, beer-flavouring costmary, an innkeeper, cat's-fo |
| SEASCAPE | Painting or sketch of the ocean, such as Winslow Homer's Crab Fishing, On the Beach, Summer Squall or The Herring Net (8) |
| OAR | The ...fish is called the "king of the herrings" (3) |
| TARPON | A gigantic fish akin to the herring (6) |
| SHADS | Herring family members |
