| MILLERSTHUMB | Small river fish, the bullhead (7,5) |
| EXECRABLE | English river fish the French will find abhorrent |
| BRASS | Trapping river fish - the cheek! (5) |
| UGLYDUCKLING | Fruit, bird, and fish - the first one heard to be a late developer (4,8) |
| APPROACHDEAL | Urgent request about fish, the last of breed, and proceed towards agreement (8,4) |
| DACE | Small river fish of the carp family (4) |
| CREEL | Hundred small river fish in the basket |
| CHUB | Small river fish of the carp family |
| MINNOW | Small river fish |
| DARWINIST | Evolutionary pioneer's success is seen in small river fish |
| BLEAK | Bill takes in fifty small river fish (5) |
| REEL | How to bring in a small river fish? |
| BRILL | Start breeding small river fish (5) |
| MEASE | River of the English Midlands, noted for bullhead and spined loach (5) |
| HORNPOUT | North American fish with barbels, also called the brown bullhead (8) |
| THUMB | Miller's ___, small fish with rounded head, also called a bullhead (5) |
| POGGE | Armed bullhead, a bony-plated fish (5) |
| OUNCE | One ___ is the record weight for a bullhead (5) |
| ARMED | ___ bullhead: bony-plated marine fish, aka pogge (*dream) (5) |
| DAWN | Bullhead fish feed at ___ and dusk (4) |
