| SEADUCK | A bufflehead, butterball, eider, harlequin, scoter or other diver (3,4) |
| BUTTERBALL | A portion of churned dairy fat, patted or rounded into a pellet shape; a plump turkey; a bufflehead; or, a rather unflattering name for one who is somewhat round or steatopygous (10) |
| DUCK | Scoter or wigeon, eg (4) |
| HOTLINE | Butterball operates one on Thanksgiving for turkey emergencies |
| SERPENT | Snake exhausted after eating wings of eider |
| DESIRED | Popular sort of eider's down (7) |
| STELLER | Georg Wilhelm ___, an 18th century scientist after whom an eider, sea eagle and sea cow were named (7) |
| IMBIBES | Turns up, a measure of fat content is found around heads of blackbirds, eiders and swallows (7) |
| ROMANCE | October 1975: The Toronto Star acquired a controlling interest in ___ novels publisher Harlequin Enterprises (the remaining 30 per cent was acquired in 1981 by the Torstar Corporation) |
| HARVEST | Gather in front section of harlequin garment (7) |
| QUININE | Harlequin inexhaustibly portraying some characters: that's the tonic (7) |
| BUFFOON | Harlequin |
| TEAL | Kin of scoter, eider et al. |
| DUVET | From French for "down", word for a continental quilt stuffed with eider- or swan-down, thus a quilted coat or a mountaineer's feather-filled jacket (5) |
| DIVINGDUCK | The Bufflehead is a small one in Canada: 2 wds. |
| GOLDCREST | Furious scoter glad, having knocked out a warbler (9) |
| TOMHANKSGIVINGTURKEYS | Headline announcing a generous Butterball donation by an Oscar winner? |
| HELPLINE | Butterball has a busy one around Thanksgiving |
| GOLDENEYE | Diving duck, related to the bufflehead (9) |
| BASTE | Butter a Butterball, say |
