| ANAIS | --- Nin, author of Little Birds, adapted for TV in 2020 |
| WADERS | Long-legged birds adapted for wading in shallow water (6) |
| RASORIAL | Birds adapted for scratching the ground for food (8) |
| COURSER | A swift charger, steed or warhorse; a runner; a beagler or other hare hunter; a hound, trained for said chase; or, a plover-like bird, adapted for sprinting, rather than flying (7) |
| SAGA | Novels adapted for TV in 1967 and 2002, The Forsyte ---- (4) |
| CRANFORD | Elizabeth Gaskell novel adapted for TV in 2007 |
| HEIGHTS | Wuthering_, Emily Bronte novel, adapted for TV in 2009 (7) |
| ONETWO | _, _, Buckle My Shoe, 1940 murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie, adapted for TV in 1992 starring David Suchet (3,3) |
| INK | The - Black Heart sixth novel in JK Rowling's Cormoran Strike series, adapted for television in 2024 (3) |
| TALE | The Handmaid's -, 1985 dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, adapted for television in 2017(4) |
| WREN | A member of a genus of little birds, Troglodytes (4) |
| SPARROWS | Box with lines of little birds (8) |
| CHEEPS | Speech ruined by the sounds of little birds |
| THECAMOMILELAWN | Mary Wesley novel filmed for TV in 1992 (3,8,4) |
| FARGO | Coen brothers film set in North Dakota, adapted for TV series (5) |
| GABLES | Anne Of Green _, often adapted for TV and film (6) |
| OMENS | Good _, adapted for TV by co-author Neil Gaiman (5) |
| BLUETIT | Tile tub in mosaic of little bird |
| INGRAM | Charles, disgraced former British major and the subject of the play Quiz, later adapted for TV (6) |
| NORMALPEOPLE | 2018 novel by Irish author Sally Rooney about a young couple later adapted for TV (6,6) |
