| PARAKEET | A collector stuffing favourite bird (8) |
| GATHERER | Known colloquially as a magpie or a squirrel, a collector, harvester or hoarder; or, a gaffer who picks up hot glass on a punty prior to blowing (8) |
| GATHERED | Was a collector, one understood (8) |
| ABSENTEE | A collector has dispatched, but one's missing (8) |
| SHINBONE | Part of Man in Black stood out, as a collector (8) |
| VIRTUOSO | Meaning "learned, skilful", an Italian word for a consummately talented musician; one with masterly skill in any other creative pursuit; or, a collector, connoisseur or dilettante of antiquities, art, |
| DUSTTRAP | A collector of dirty films (4,4) |
| SQUIRREL | Small bolt one's installed for a collector |
| UNOPENED | Like a collector's action figures, probably |
| ROBIN | With a melancholic autumn call after its moult, Britain's favourite bird, said by Aristotle to transform into a redstart in the summer and vice-versa in the winter (5) |
| PETTICOAT | Favourite bird holds firm to a slip |
| HARLEQUIN | Columbine's favourite bird |
| PENGUIN | Writer starts to get upset with favourite bird (7) |
| EAGLE | Golfer's favourite bird of prey (5) |
| NIGHTJARS | Boozy insomniac's favourite birds? (9) |
| PIECE | A chessman; a coin; a collector's item; a composition; or, a crumb (5) |
| SIT | Pull up a pew - it's a bit of a collector's item (3) |
| PHILATELIST | A little ship adapted for a collector (11) |
| CURIO | A small article valued as a collector's item (5) |
| GAUGER | A person or thing that gauges / a collector of excise taxes |
