| BOYSCOUT | Traditionally prepared type of state float for talent spotter (3,5) |
| REPUBLIC | Type of state |
| SALAMI | Mails a newly prepared type of sausage |
| DIETARY | Ready with it, prepared type of fibre (7) |
| RICHARDS | Designer of Banker float for mudline fishing (*dad's armchair) (4,8) |
| LOCSLIDE | Self-locking float for leger/ feeder fishing (*collides) (8) |
| POLYBALL | Round, buoyant float for popping up/ balancing bait etc (8) |
| CHUBBERS | Short, dumpy float for trotting (8) |
| GREENTEA | Beverage such as dragon well, hyson, gunpowder, matcha or sencha, traditionally prepared in the ceremony chanoyu (5,3) |
| DRIFTNET | Device supported by floats for fishing |
| SKITTLES | Thick-tipped floats for shallow fishing; ninepins (8) |
| MUSTARD | From a word for grape juice, a hot-tasting condiment traditionally prepared by grinding the seeds of a brassica of the same name into a paste with said marc or stum; or, the yellow-ochre colour of thi |
| WOOL | Natural fibre traditionally prepared for spinning through a method of carding and combing (4) |
| INKED | Prepared type for printing, sometimes editors do it (5) |
| IQTEST | A measure of the thickness presumably of talent spotter (2,4) |
| ARNICA | Herb related to daisies, traditionally prepared as a remedy for bruises (6) |
| PREFAB | Turns up, fixed charge is reduced in public house for port by one of those accommodating, prepared types off-site (6) |
| SCOUTSHONOUR | Talent-spotters get credit for those who are prepared, I swear (5'1,6) |
| LOAFER | Big buoyant float for lots of shot (*or leaf) (6) |
| ADAM | Designer of Banker float for mudline fishing (*dad's armchair) (4,8) |
