| YELLOWHAMMER | Bird of the bunting family mentioned in a Robert Burns poem (12) |
| ABERFELDY | Town on the River Tay in Scotland, mentioned in a Robert Burns poem and an Ed Sheeran song (9) |
| QUINCE | Fruit in the apple family mentioned in Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (6) |
| ORTOLANS | Birds of the bunting family, once prized as a delicacy |
| YELLOWHAMMERS | Birds of the bunting family (13) |
| AULDLANGSYNE | Song based on a Robert Burns poem (4,4,4) |
| OFMICEANDMEN | John Steinbeck novella, published 1937, whose title comes from a Robert Burns poem (2,4,3,3) |
| SMA | Kind of request in a Robert Burns poem |
| MOUSE | What is the "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie" in a Robert Burns poem? (5) |
| JEAN | "The lassie I love best" in a Robert Burns poem |
| ORTOLAN | Member of the bunting family, regarded as a delicacy (7) |
| SYNE | Word in a Robert Burns poem heard on December 31 |
| REDREDROSE | Flower that "my Luve is like," in a Robert Burns poem |
| NANNIE | Girl in a Robert Burns poem |
| TANAGER | Songbird of the bunting family (7) |
| BRAE | The ____s of bonnie Doon are one of its fresh and fair features in a Robert Burns song |
| CUTTYSARK | Famous witch from a Robert Burns poem (5,4) |
| LASS | Handsome Nell, in a Robert Burns song |
| AFTON | Small Ayrshire river, in the title of a 1791 Robert Burns poem (5) |
| LEGAL | The kind of eagles that figure in a Robert Redford movie (5) |
