| RUBBERS | General term for soft-bodied lures (7) |
| CURLYTAIL | Soft-bodied lure with kinky end? (5,4) |
| GENTLES | Old angling term for soft maggots (*ten legs) (7) |
| PLUGS | Hard-bodied lures, available in floating and sinking type (5) |
| OTTO | Musical term for ' soft' initially cut, Klemperer? (4) |
| CRANKBAIT | Hard-bodied lure, aka plug (*it ran back) (9) |
| OUTPUTS | General term for quantities produced by machines, or for the data sent from computers to VDUs, printers etc (7) |
| BOBBERS | General term for buoyant high-vis floats (7) |
| EMOTION | General term for a physiological response controlled by the limbic system (7) |
| WEATHER | General term for the atmospheric conditions studied and forecast by a meteorologist (7) |
| ANIMALS | General term for the organisms forming the subject matter of many of the books for children by Dick |
| CLASSIC | General term for a book considered timeless with established value, such as Emma, Vanity Fair, The Wind in the Willows or Catch-22 (7) |
| CLAVIER | General term for a stringed keyboard instrument such as a harpsichord or piano; from Latin via French, 'key' (7) |
| EVENTER | General term for a type of horse ridden by equestrians Charlotte Dujardin, William Fox-Pitt or Carl |
| KEEPFIT | General term for regular physical exercise such as aerobics, running, weight training, swimming etc (4-3) |
| TERMITE | Small pale, soft-bodied insect that lives in large colonies (7) |
| MAGGOTS | Legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larvae of any of various flies (7) |
| SPONGES | Soft-bodied marine creatures in the phylum Porifera (7) |
| OCTOPUS | Soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc (7) |
| FIREFLY | Soft-bodied beetle related to the glowworm (7) |
