| CARRIONCROW | Bird related to the rook and jackdaw (7,4) |
| RAVEN | Bird related to the rook (5) |
| ROOK | Bird related to crows, ravens and jackdaws; or, a chess piece in the form of a battlement (4) |
| CROW | Family of birds which includes the rook and the raven (4) |
| CASTLED | Moved the rook and the king, in chess |
| HOODEDCROWS | Jackdaws nesting in a broken cowshed door (6,5) |
| PANTHER | Criticise the rook and cat (7) |
| FOLLETT | Ken -, author of the novels Whiteout and Jackdaws (7) |
| CORVIDAE | Family to which crows, rooks and jackdaws belong (8) |
| DRIVE | Stroke by an underwater explorer to get the rook to move (5) |
| CASTLE | The rook is first seen in the corner (6) |
| KATEATKINSON | Who wrote Death at the Sign of the Rook (2024) |
| CORVID | A crow or one of the distinct but closely related members of its family, such as a chough, jackdaw, jay, magpie, raven or rook (6) |
| RHEIMS | The Jackdaw of - (The Ingoldsby Legends) |
| ROKKAKU | Giant bird and northern jackdaw look finally united fighting kite |
| JAYS | Birds related to crows, rooks, magpies, jackdaws and ravens (4) |
| CATHERINE | Film player capturing the rook or queen (9) |
| CAW | Cry of the rook |
| TOOK | Without her, the rook was accepted (4) |
| CHESS | The Rook's game |
