Possible Clues:

• Going fishing to a certain degree
• A rod-and-line fisherman
• One might have a rod 8 down
• Displeasure about lake fish
• What 25 down did in to get it in
• Fighting-chair occupant
• One makes a cast
• How fishy that without fifty this could be all the rage
• Fifty in a rage will want the end of 33 across around the North
• Losing his line would produce rage?