| ELVER | What's in creel? Very small fish |
| EELS | Concealed in creel stuffed with fish (4) |
| MACKEREL | Fish, medium-sized -- a kilo in creel, wriggling (8) |
| EEL | Swimmer caught in creels (3) |
| SILENCER | It is for reducing the noise in creels possibly (8) |
| ELECTRON | Tiny thing in creel not moving |
| LOBSTER | Caught in a creel, trap or pot and known collectively as a risk, a marine crustacean in a class that includes crabs, crayfish and shrimp (7) |
| CREOLE | A French settler in Louisiana found nothing in the creel maybe (6) |
| BOBBIN | A reel or spool of yarn in a sewing machine or held by a spinning mule's creel; or, in haberdashery, narrow cord or braid used as a trimming (6) |
| NACRE | Shell in a creel appeared (5) |
| BASKET | General name for a container that can be in the form of a creel, hamper, pannier, punnet, seedlip, skep or trug (6) |
| CEREAL | You don't expect breakfast food in a creel - but it could be (6) |
| REDOLENCE | Fragrance coming from creel done in this way (9) |
| FISH | What would you expect to find in a creel? (4) |
| JUNKET | A rush fish-basket; rennet custard or cream cheese, originally laid on rushes or made in such a creel; or, a banquet, beano, business trip, feast, picnic, politician's tour or other jaunt (6) |
| CONTAINER | Creel |
| HAMPER | Creel |
| ANGLERS | Creel carriers |
| CLING | Stick fish under lid of creel (5) |
| PELICANPOUCH | Kind of creel (2 wds.) |
