| FISHEAGLE | A colloquial name for the osprey (4,5) |
| FISHHAWK | Another name for the osprey (4,4) |
| MAESTEG | Welsh rugby club, a feeder club for the Ospreys, who play home games at Llynfi Road (7) |
| DOODLEBUG | A colloquial name used by the Allies for the V-1 flying bomb, launched from the North Coast of France from 1944 (9) |
| ROOKIE | What is a colloquial name for a raw recruit (6) |
| SPIN | What is a colloquial name for political rhetoric (4) |
| WACKYBACCY | A colloquial name for smoked cannabis |
| REDBREAST | Colloquial name for the robin |
| RISE | Walk up an 8 across, and one will ___, as in kiss-meere-I-___ (a colloquial name for the 9 down plant!) (4) |
| SPUD | Sharp, narrow spade used to dig up large-rooted plants - and a colloquial name for the 3 across! (4) |
| HEYPRESTO | A revealing cry from the osprey when disturbed (3, 6) |
| RENEWABLE | Another name for alternative energy, or a colloquial word for any form of usable energy derived from replenishable sources (9) |
| BEEB | A colloquial name that's used for the BBC (4) |
| GODS | The -; colloquial name for the gallery in a theatre's auditorium (4) |
| SCHLEMIEL | A colloquial term for an awkward or clumsy person (9) |
| MONKEYJESUS | Colloquial name for the botched restoration of Elias Garcia Martinez's "Ecce Homo," which went viral for making Christ look simian |
| HUMVEE | Colloquial name for the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, a light, four-wheel drive military truck (6) |
| IDIOMATIC | Am idiotic about such a colloquial expression. (9) |
| EDISON | Colloquial name for the BBC (4) |
| HANSARD | Colloquial name for the Official Report of parliamentary debates (7) |
