Possible Clues:

• Journalist's idea
• Approach that's no good in beer
• Corner - fish
• Ancient German, fish
• That's a fishy way to behave, to a certain degree
• What a fishy way, to a certain degree
• Perspective of immigrant from many centuries ago
• Position, as a pool cue
• Measure of inclination
• Ninety degrees, say, needed for fish