| YELLOWHAMMER | A bunting (bird) (12) |
| CARDINAL | Senior Roman Catholic priest; scarlet colour; a species of fritillary butterfly; or, a bunting-like bird (8) |
| ORTOLAN | Bunting (bird) (7) |
| CORN | Common crop we might connect with the bunting bird (4) |
| FLAG | A piece of bunting with distinctive colours and a design such as a border, canton, saltire, skull and crossbones or stripes; or, a yellow iris thought to have inspired the fleur-de-lis (4) |
| SNOWFLAKE | Any one of a flurry or blizzard of dainty white frozen hexagonally symmetrical crystals of "glace" thus, an Arctic bunting forming a swirling drift-like flock; or, a Galanthus-like St Agnes' flower, a |
| CIRL | From "whistle as a thrush", a species of bunting resembling a female yellowhammer (4) |
| NONPAREIL | Word for something regarded as unequalled, such as a painted bunting; a fine russet apple; or, one of "hundreds and thousands" of rainbow- coloured sprinkles used to decorate a chocolate button of the |
| REMNANT | Last piece of cloth at the end of a bolt sold at a reduced price, often used for projects including cushion covers, patchwork, bunting, lavender bags and French memo boards (7) |
| MONTAGU | With several species named after him including a blenny and a harrier, the author of Ornithological Dictionary who first distinguished the cirl bunting from the yellowhammer (7) |
| DECORATION | Bunting (in honour of a brave man?) (10) |
| CHEWINK | For a gondolier, what flash bunting! |
| LARK | ___ bunting; Colorado's state bird |
| FLAGSTICK | According to the USGA Rules of Golf, "a moveable straight indicator, with or without bunting or othe |
| ORTOLANS | Birds of the bunting family, once prized as a delicacy |
| CROCUS | Meaning "saffron", a corm with purple, white or yellow flowers such as the Firefly, Snow Bunting or the Spring Beauty; or, jeweller's rouge (6) |
| SACRIFICING | Bunting |
| BANGING | Bunting |
| HITTING | Bunting |
| PUSHING | Bunting |
