| RANSOME | Author of the Swallows and Amazons books including Peter Duck, Coot Club and Pigeon Post (7) |
| POTTER | Watercolourist and mycologist who wrote about characters including Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck (6) |
| ARTHURRANSOME | Author of the Swallows and Amazons books (6,7) |
| BROADS | The -; network of rivers and lakes in Norfolk and Suffolk, setting of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club and The Big Six (6) |
| NORFOLK | County, site of Sandringham and scene of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club (7) |
| WALLOWS | Delights in the flight of the swallow (7) |
| WALSALL | West Midlands production site of the Swallow Doretti (7) |
| MARTINS | Birds of the swallow family (7) |
| OCTOBER | When the swallows leave Capistrano |
| SISKIN | Kind of finch the first of the swallows is related to (6) |
| HULLABALOO | In Arthur Ransome's book Coot Club, the children's name for any one of the holidaymakers from the city (10) |
| HIRUNDINE | Any bird of the swallow and martin family |
| MARTIN | Bird of the swallow family which likes to build its mud nests in the eaves of buildings and is abundant in Mallorca, where it originally suspended its nests from the roofs of caves (6) |
| TITTYWALKER | Able Seaman of the Swallow in the Arthur Ransome book series Swallows and Amazons |
| TITTY | Able Seaman of the Swallow in the Arthur Ransome book series Swallows and Amazons (5) |
| WALKER | Able Seaman of the Swallow in the Arthur Ransome book series Swallows and Amazons (6) |
| HAIKU | Lines of dialogue between human and pigeon recorded |
| RIVERBASIN | Amazon Books heading to a school in specific catchment area on the coast (5,5) |
| ESPN | Airer of many NCAA games DOWN 51:D:;Like maple trees and pigeons? |
| HOUSE | Bird of the swallow family with a white-and-bluish-black plumage (5,6) |
