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Angled and he'd caught fish (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

heeled

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'angled' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'he'd caught fish' is the wordplay.
'caught' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'fish' becomes 'eel' (eel is a type of fish).
'hed' going around 'eel' is 'HEELED'.

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for heeled that I've seen before include "Be well shod thus to have money" , "Most shoes are" , "Played the part of a hooker" , "Leant over" , "listed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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