| AHEN | "Two owls and _ ___ / Four larks and..." - Edward Lear |
| ONALL | ___ ___ fours; crawling |
| SONGBIRDS | Nightingales, larks and thrushes, for example (9) |
| RHYME | What larks and sharks do |
| ROYALTIES | Appropriate payments for Henry James and Edward Lear? |
| LIMERICK | Nonsense verse long associated with humour and Edward Lear |
| NONSENSE | ___ verse, poetry form associated with Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear (8) |
| NONSENSEVERSE | Poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, eg (8,5) |
| AWAKE | Nocturnal animals -- like owls and bats -- sleep during the day and stay ___ at night |
| HOOTING | Sound from two owls at first during stormy night? (7) |
| ESCAPADE | Lark, and a dove initially, in flight (8) |
| ANOUILH | Playwright Jean ____ wrote The Lark and Antigone |
| OWL | Evident in crow, lark and a bird of prey (3) |
| SCHOLAR | Student couples ultimately avoid scam, hoax, lark and rag |
| VOYSEY | Architect of English country houses whose Arts and Crafts textile designs include Apothecary's Garden, The Saladin, The Owls and Alice in Wonderland (6) |
| THOMAS | Poet and creator of the fictional fishing village "Llareggub", who, in Fern Hill, reflects on his childhood visits to his aunt's farm in Wales, including its apple boughs, foxes, nightjars, owls and p |
| OAR | Heads of owls and ravens that may be feathered? |
| HORNED | Like some owls and toads (6) |
| SNOWY | Adjective for some owls and egrets |
| PRINCE | This musician changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993; it was both a creative lark and an unsuccessful attempt to escape contract obligations |
