| JACUZZI | Just in case get rid of nests and have forty winks in the spa (7) |
| COUNTER | Small disc called a wink in the game tiddlywinks (7) |
| DREADFULNIGHT | Couldn't one sleep a wink in the poet Thomson's city? (8,5) |
| ANTEATERS | Insectivores like going round edges of nest and a tree that's rotten (9) |
| UNAPT | Not fit? Have forty winks in little 'ouse |
| INAPT | Not appropriate to have forty winks in it (5) |
| HANAPER | Lady grabbing forty winks in Chancery (7) |
| SHUTEYE | Huey set off to have forty winks (7) |
| DISPUTE | Deputies, having lost final case, get involved in argument (7) |
| DROPOFF | Decline to have forty winks (4,3) |
| TOPMAST | It may hold crow's nest and best food in forest (7) |
| LAYDOWN | Spread out feathers to have 40 winks (3,4) |
| MISLAYS | Deposits in wrong nest and can't find? (7) |
| ROOKERY | Eggs, well covered, line set of nests |
| NAPE | To have forty winks, we finish by the scruff of the neck |
| NAP | In the afternoon, apparently, one can have forty winks (3) |
| CATNAP | Caught a worker retiring on the quiet to have forty winks (6) |
| SLAGHEAPS | Spooner's crone grabs forty winks in high-rise digs (4,5) |
| THOMAS | Author of poems including April, Birds' Nests and Celandine whose book In Pursuit of Spring describes his London to Somerset bike ride (6) |
| BIRDSNEST | ___ soup, rich spicy Chinese dish made from the outer part of nests of various swifts (5,4) |
