| ABSURD | A magpie, for example, heard devouring small cuckoo |
| BIRDSNEST | Home to a magpie, for example (4'1,4) |
| DOUGH | Buck, for example, heard a little deer (5) |
| BYRD | Composer's lark, for example, heard |
| PICA | Genus of the crow family, named for the Latin word for magpie, for which it is used as a tautonym (4) |
| 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) |
| SAVER | One who hoards, like a magpie or a squirrel; a lifeguard or rescuer; a cheap ticket; or, a hedging bet (5) |
| SORROW | One magpie for ..., two for joy |
| ASSENTS | A small cuckoo nest, son agrees (7) |
| YESMEN | Home of Asians devouring small lapdogs? |
| SPOTTY | Small cuckoo may be mottled |
| MADGE | Regional dialect or old English name for a barn owl or a magpie (5) |
| HOARDER | For a magpie it's more distressing when nothing is retained (7) |
| BICOLOR | Like a half-moon cookie or a magpie |
| PARODIED | Took off like a magpie jabbed by a stick |
| PYOT | Scottish word for a magpie (4) |
| PEEWEE | Name another term for a magpie lark (6) |
| TED | Crow poet Hughes whose daughter Frieda wrote a book about a magpie |
| PIECE | A bit of a magpie, certainly (5) |
| DAFT | A little cuckoo |
