| SPOUTS | "Building nests in Fame's great temple, as in ____ the swallows build" (Longfellow, Nuremberg) |
| PETRIE | In 1891-92, this pioneering Egyptologist investigates the Great Temple of the Aten at Amarna. |
| KISSCURLS | Such ringlets at the temples as invite affection (4-5) |
| LOVEBIRDS | Deep affection for those building nests for parrots (9) |
| ASSENT | Approval for one building nests (6) |
| NESTING | Building nest |
| SATINETTES | Birds building nest at site (10) |
| STERN | First rook building nest at back of craft (5) |
| RANSOME | Author of the Swallows and Amazons series as well as The Child's Book of the Seasons, The Things in our Garden and The Book of Friendship (7) |
| ANGER | What completes the title of Look Back in _, the John Osborne play filmed in 1958? (5) |
| THAW | When gentoo penguins poo, it melts the snow beneath them so they can immediately begin to build their nests in the cleared area below |
| MANDARIN | - duck; introduced to the UK from China, a water bird that nests in the cavities of trees (8) |
| ROOK | Member of the crow family that nests in the tops of tall trees (4) |
| EDDIE | Taron Egerton portrays the title character in ___ the Eagle (5) |
| CELANDINES | Buttercup-like blooms brightening winter's demise with illimitable golden galaxies, thus delighted in by Wordsworth and, like their etymological namesakes the swallows, regarded as "spring messengers" |
| SISKIN | Kind of finch the first of the swallows is related to (6) |
| COSTS | No wrens in crows' nests in those types of overheads (5) |
| SPIT | What the nests in bird's-nest soup are made of |
| SPRUCEBEETLE | Insect that feeds on and nests in pine and other evergreen trees in North America (6,6) |
| SMEW | Small duck found in northern Eurasia, which nests in tree holes (4) |
