| SNOWGOOSE | Bird songs we disguised to bewilder ducks (4,5) |
| WASTEFUL | Extravagant faults we disguised (8) |
| OBFUSCATE | To bewilder or make unintelligible (9) |
| TWITTERED | Used social media to record repeated bird song (9) |
| GIRLINRED | Queer icon with the song "we fell in love in october" |
| CHAMPIONS | Queen song, We Are the ... |
| TWINGE | Bit of a pain to get disguised to secure victory (6) |
| CAROLS | Songs we like to sing at this time (6) |
| BEMUSE | Birds have to be around to bewilder one (6) |
| RILLS | Bird-songs don't start in streams (5) |
| NETES | Memoranda or marginalia; musical notes; or, bird songs (5) |
| NEWSOFTHEWORLD | Queen album, released in 1977, featuring the songs We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions (4,2,3,5) |
| ENAMI | Taken a mistress disguised to the Elysee as a friend (2,3) |
| SONETLUMIERE | Going disguised to unseemlier cross-Channel spectacle (3,2,7) |
| MOCKINGBIRD | American bird that mimics other birds' songs (11) |
| SURREPTITIOUS | Peru tourists I disguised to be clandestine (13) |
| LOVEBITE | Sign of affection disguised to be evil (8) |
| VERSUS | Against parts of songs, we hear (6) |
| LEADER | One conducting the German songs we hear (6) |
| CORSAIRS | Privateers produce rude songs, we hear (8) |
