| HOLY | Lead-in to "mackerel" or "cow" |
| BONITO | Fish related to mackerel/tuna (*in boot) (6) |
| SCADS | Fish similar to mackerel |
| WAHOO | Large and fast-moving fish related to mackerel |
| CRUMBS | Word for the fragments of bread recalled in an old-school euphemism akin to Christ, Christmas, god, gracious, heavens, heck, holy mackerel or lord; or, morsels of information (6) |
| SHINER | A mackerel or any small silvery fish with glittering scales; a polisher; or, slang for a rainbow, a black eye or a bright coin, such as a sovereign (6) |
| HORSERADISH | Root related to wasabi eaten with roast beef, smoked mackerel or beetroot (11) |
| TABBY | Watered silk taffeta, originally from Baghdad; a cat with a brindled, mackerel or streaked coat, evocative of this; a gossip; a grey-brown mottled moth; or, coquina-like concrete (5) |
| FISH | Mackerel or bass |
| PLURAL | Like "mackerel" or "salmon," at times |
| OILY | Like mackerel or salmon |
| SPRINGER | A breed of spaniel; heifer or cow close to calving; or, another name for a ladyfish or ten-pounder (8) |
| AFRO | Style in calf or cow oddly lacking (4) |
| SHE | What to call a sow or cow |
| ELK | Bull or cow in the forest |
| AYRSHIRE | Appearance, so to speak, of horse or cow (8) |
| POSE | Cat or cow, in yoga |
| MOOSE | Bull or cow in the woods |
| QUADRUPED | An animal walking on four legs whether its a mammal, such as a zebra or cow, or a lizard |
| OFFAL | Averse to a last bit of veal or cow's liver, say (5) |
