| 20 answers for: Animal with a drey as a nest (8) |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| SQUIRREL | Animal with a drey as a nest (8) |
| CAGE | Word for a hollow that came to mean a basket for fowls, a bottle-holder, a coop, a corf, a hutch, a netted goal, a prison cell or a squirrel's drey (4) |
| TWIG | Small branch used for kindling, propping a top-heavy hyacinth in a pot or to form a drey by a squirrel (4) |
| MARESNEST | In allusion to something, such as a filly's drey, that doesn't exist, a term for a supposedly worthwhile but illusory discovery; or, a clutter, fuddle, jumble or nide-like muddle (5-4) |
| LAY | Deposit, as a nest egg, was located |
| ROOK | Man as a nest-builder? |
| SETAT | Program to, as a Nest |
| LAYON | Have ready for the hen to use as a nest |
| AMASS | Build, as a nest egg |
| SEDENTARY | Still a nest: drey? (9) |
| NESTER | An animal, bird or creature distinguished by its nidification of a bink, cage, drey, eyrie, formicary, hive, vespiary, wurley or other nidus (6) |
| NIDICULOUS | Zoological Latin term, rather like a word for "absurd", describing a cuckoo baby, dove peep, eaglet, hawk eyas, juvenile parrot, owlet, pigeon squeaker, puffling, young woodpecker or other chick that |
| TWIGS | Small woody shoots used by a squirrel to build its drey (5) |
| NEST | A squirrel's drey, e.g. (4) |
| YIELDER | The producer of drey, Eli (7) |
| VISOR | Eye protection used e.g. when drey poking (5) |
| HELMET | Head protection when e.g. drey-poking squirrels (6) |
| VESPIARY | Word, modelled on a term for a bee yard, for a nest or colony of wasps (8) |
| WAYIFEEL | "The ___ _ ___": Gordon lightfoot song that mentions a Robin and a nest |
| WATERHEN | Bird with a nest originally accommodating cuckoo there |
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