| WADING | - bird; general name for a curlew, snipe, sandpiper, oystercatcher, turnstone or plover/lapwing (6) |
| WHAUP | Scottish name for a curlew (5) |
| TEWIT | Northern English dialect for one of a "deceit" of birds also called a green plover, lapwing or pyewipe (5) |
| WATERBIRD | Sandpiper, oystercatcher, eg (5-4: 64 Traffic lights with a push button (7,8) |
| PUBLISHER | Penguin or Turnstone, e.g. |
| REEF | Knot, turnstone etc may feed here |
| URNS | Large coffee containers hidden in "turnstone" |
| GODWIT | Large wading bird, like a curlew - two dig (anag) (6) |
| SEAPIE | A sailor's varying layered dish of salt meat with a hardtack or pastry crust, traditionally eaten on the briny/main; or, the original name, referring to its black-and-white plumage, for an oystercatch |
| STANDS | Booths from which street food is cooked and sold; adjustable frames or "desks" for holding sheet music during performances; or, companies of flamingos or plovers (6) |
| AVOCET | An oystercatcher-sized pied wader once extinct in the UK (6) |
| WADERS | Birds such as oystercatchers, curlews and avocets |
| SCRAPE | Term for e.g. curlew's nest dug in shallow ground (6) |
| ESKIMO | ___ curlew, a wader, now feared extinct (6) |
| STELLA | Frank, US artist born in 1936 whose works include the 1976 mixed media piece Eskimo Curlew (6) |
| STAND | A halt or stop; an opinion; a base, pedestal, rack or other support; or, a company of lapwings or plovers (5) |
| SNIPES | Curlew cousins |
| WADER | Bird such as a sandpiper or plover |
| SHOREBIRD | Curlew or plover |
| SANDPIPERS | Wading shorebirds forming part of a family with curlews, phalaropes, snipe, turnstones and woodcocks (10) |
