| Fisherman's slippery catches | 32 |
| Fisherman's lament over a dead surgeonfish? | 47 |
| Fisherman's feat that's out of character? | 49 |
| Fisherman's bane and hockey player's boon | 49 |
| Fisherman's aid that floats with the current | 48 |
| Fisherman's 12-pounder, e.g. | 32 |
| Fisherman's 10-pounder, e.g. | 32 |
| Fisherman's "the one that got away" | 49 |
| Fisherman who uses razor clams for bait | 39 |
| Fisherman who supplies a sushi bar | 34 |
| Fisher's "Postcards From the _____" | 49 |
| Fisher with an eponymous concert hall | 37 |
| Fisher using more off-color language? | 37 |
| Fisher standing atop a stack of sacks? | 38 |
| Fisher of "Wedding Crashers" | 38 |
| Fisher of "The Great Gatsby" | 38 |
| Fisher of "Arrested Development" | 42 |
| Fished with the National Anguilla Club | 38 |
| Fished when asked to "fish or cut bait" | 49 |
| Fishburne thriller (with ''The'') | 49 |
| Fishburne of "The Matrix" | 35 |
| Fish's place to relax at home? | 34 |
| Fish you don't want to be biting | 36 |
| Fish with long jaws and needlelike teeth | 40 |
| Fish with iridescent blue stripes | 33 |
| Fish whose skin is sometimes used for leather | 45 |
| Fish whose name means "spear" | 39 |
| Fish whose male carries the eggs | 32 |
| Fish usually caught in the winter | 33 |
| Fish that's split for cooking | 33 |
| Fish that's no longer in the sea | 36 |
| Fish that's jellied in British cuisine | 42 |
| Fish that's high on the food chain | 38 |
| Fish that swims in an upright position | 38 |
| Fish that resembles an alligator | 32 |
| Fish that may masquerade as a log | 33 |
| Fish that may be caught in a cage | 33 |
| Fish that escaped a dentist's aquarium | 42 |
| Fish that could double as a center? | 35 |
| Fish that attaches itself to a host | 35 |
| Fish stocked in ornamental pools | 32 |
| Fish served in the Basque dish angulas | 38 |
| Fish often prepared with a meunière sauce | 44 |
| Fish named for a facial characteristic | 38 |
| Fish mentioned in "I Am the Walrus" | 45 |
| Fish large enough to be legally caught | 38 |
| Fish known to bite the hand that feeds it | 41 |
| Fish in the Japanese dish "unaju" | 43 |
| Fish in a crowded-subway metaphor | 33 |
| Fish in "The Old Man and the Sea" | 43 |
| Fish entree named for Peer Gynt's mother? | 45 |
| Fish by thrusting a baited hook into holes | 42 |
| Fish and chips sold by the water's edge? | 44 |
| Fish and chips follower, sometimes | 34 |
| Fish and chips accompanier, perhaps | 35 |
| Fish also known as a river herring | 34 |
| Fish also known as "red drum" | 39 |
| Fish also called a Jerusalem haddock | 36 |
| Fish also called "blue jack" | 38 |
| Fish also called ''blue jack'' | 46 |
| Fish after which a cape is named | 32 |
| Fish "jellied" in British cuisine | 43 |
| Fischer-Dieskau's musical forte | 35 |
| Fischer beat him to become the World Champion | 45 |
| Fiscally conservative Democrat, say | 35 |
| Fiscal watchdog of the U.S. Congress | 36 |
| Fiscal operations manager (abbr.) | 33 |
| Fiscal downward spiral, figuratively | 36 |
| Firstborn son of Valiant and Aleta | 34 |
| First-year Kennedy Center Honors recipient | 42 |
| First-year Kennedy Center honoree | 33 |
| First-year French student's verb | 36 |
| First-year college student, usually | 35 |
| First-week-of-school social event | 33 |
| First-week Wimbledon hurdle for Serena | 38 |
| First-timer in on-line gaming slang | 35 |
| First-time-in-the-saddle consequence | 36 |
| First-round draft pick that goes nowhere | 40 |
| First-rate, in ''Variety''speak | 47 |
| First-place finishers in Bangor? | 32 |
| First-person shooter released in 1998 | 37 |
| First-of-type subject of a 1912 Massachusetts law | 49 |
| First-of-a-kind 1960's TV star | 34 |
| First-level apartment number, perhaps | 37 |
| First-grader's attention-getting phrase | 43 |
| First-generation Japanese-American | 34 |
| First-generation Japanese immigrants | 36 |
| First-ever speaker on C-Span, 3/19/79 | 37 |
| First-ever designated hitter Blomberg | 37 |
| First-ever Best Actor Oscar winner Jannings | 43 |
| First-ever 10-time Best Actress nominee | 39 |
| First-come, first-served pickup spots | 37 |
| First-class, with "de" | 32 |
| First-class piece of infant's wear? | 39 |
| First-class aisle seat on most planes | 37 |
| First-century Judean monarch Herod __ | 37 |
| First-century B.C. pharaoh, briefly | 35 |
| First-born, compared to the others | 34 |
| First-ballot Baseball Hall of Famer of 1982 | 43 |
| First-aid supply for Springsteen? | 33 |