| PINTAILS | *Ducks named for their rear feathers |
| TEALS | Ducks named for their greenish-blue color |
| WOOD | ___ ants can shoot out burning, irritating chemicals such as formic acid from their rear ends |
| PINTAIL | Duck named for the long-feathered part of its anatomy |
| FANTAIL | Small bird with distinctive rear feathers (7) |
| HAR | Character with a duck named Kvack |
| HAGAR | He has a duck named Kvack |
| BEES | Busy people, competitions for spelling or gatherings for quilting/sewing, all named for their resemblance to industrious sociable buzzing or humming honey-making hymenopterans of the same name (4) |
| TRAY | A thin insert for a layer of chocolates in a box, a toaster's shallow crumb drawer, a metal sheet on which to bake biscuits or a silver salver for drinks, each named for their likeness to a treen boar |
| SAG | Award for film and TV performers, named for their union |
| BULLSEYE | Word for an archery target's central gold, a big round humbug-like peppermint, a cyclone's whirling centre, a lantern, a porthole or a thick lens, each named for their apparent resemblance in some way |
| REDWINGS | The UK's smallest thrushes, named for their rouge or ruddy flank patches or feathers (8) |
| OTOWN | Boy band named for their Florida city's nickname |
| YUGOS | European cars named for their country of origin |
| OTTOMANS | Middle Easterners named for their first sultan |
| LEOTARDS | Tights named for their creator |
| CRESCENTROLLS | *Bakery fare named for their shape |
| MANXCATS | Pets named for their British Isles origin |
| KILLDEERPHOEBE | Two birds named for their calls |
| CHICKADEECUCKOO | Two more birds named for their calls |
