| YAFFLE | Another name for the green woodpecker |
| AWLBIRD | Dialect or folk name for the green woodpecker or yaffle (7) |
| SHAG | Another name for the green comorant (4) |
| RAIN | Form of precipitation said to be heralded by the call of the green woodpecker, after which blackbirds and mistle-thrushes often sing (4) |
| YAFFINGALE | An imitative folk name of the green woodpecker aka laughing Betsy (10) |
| YOKEL | From dialectal English for "green woodpecker, yellowhammer", a towny term for a bumpkin, clodhopper, country cousin, hayseed or other supposedly unsophisticated rustic (5) |
| HIRT | Al who performed the theme for "The Green Hornet" |
| AWL | An instrument with a sharp point likened to the hole-boring beak of a green woodpecker (3) |
| SPRITE | From "breath", word for an elf, sylph or water fairy, thus a dainty or impish person; otherwise, a blue riverdamsel; a flash of red lightning; a green woodpecker; or, a spayed ferret (6) |
| ANTS | Insects studied in myrmecology that constitute the majority of the diet of green woodpeckers (4) |
| RAFFLE | Draw green woodpecker striking head next to river |
| AWLBIRDS | Dialect, along with yaffingales and yaffles, for green woodpeckers (8) |
| PASTURES | Makes sure of history first for the green fields for example (8) |
| PUTTERCHAOS | Confusion when a golfer can't find the club for the green? |
| MARKETGARDEN | Advertise the virtues of The Eden Project for The Greens (6,6) |
| LAIDUP | Didn't go for the green |
| LAYSUP | Doesn't go for the green, in golf |
| MARC | Playwright Connelly who won a Pulitzer for "The Green Pastures" |
| IDLES | Waits for the green light |
| IDLED | Waited for the green light |
