Possible Clues:

• Wound (around)
• Got thrown for a loop
• Long to be so fishy in such a colourful setting
• It turned round and twisted for long in the red
• The twister was turning in the red
• Red around the fish gone around
• Got around to buck up about the French
• Did this in to get the fish in
• One of 30 across got around to being in the red
• How one of 30 across got around to being in the red