| PENGUIN | Bird, or a publishing company (7) |
| BOON | Who, along with Mills, founded a publishing company famous for romantic novels? (4) |
| ANGUS | Who joined Robertson in 1886 to form a publishing company in Sydney? (5) |
| CHIRRUP | Word meaning jolly along; a cluck made with the lips when urging forth one's pony or hack; a cheep of a bird; or, a click of a cricket (7) |
| BABBLER | Australian slang for a cook; an incessantly twittering "cackler" bird; or, a garrulous chatterbox without a veritable off/mute switch (7) |
| AMNIOTE | Answer - yours truly has changed into a bird or a reptile (7) |
| OSTRICH | Flightless bird - or a type of fern (7) |
| HEARSTS | Members of a publishing dynasty |
| THOMSON | Publishing company responsible for Oor Wullie, DC - (7) |
| REGROUP | Note Greek publishing company getting to assemble again (7) |
| PICADOR | Publishing company with marketing men supporting single out on the radio (7) |
| GIBBONS | Stanley ___ , stamp dealers and philatelic publishing company founded in 1856 |
| PIPE | A hose or other tube; a butt of wine equal to two hogsheads; a high voice; a note of a bird; or, a chillum (4) |
| TWITCH | A sharp jerk or pull; a pang; a muscle spasm; an outing taken in order to spot a rare bird; or, a traditional horse-calming noose on a stick (6) |
| GULL | Dialect for an unfledged bird or a gosling; a mew; or, a dupe or fool (4) |
| ROOST | A hen house; the branch, nest or other perch of a sleeping bird; or, a group of fowls resting together (5) |
| COVEY | A brood, hatch or flock of grouse, partridges, quail or other game birds; or, a small party or set of people (5) |
| LAROUSSE | French lexicographer who edited and co-compiled a 15-volume dictionary and founded a publishing house noted for a tome on gastronomy (8) |
| KNOT | A type of bird - or a problem to which Gordius found a solution (4) |
| GOOSE | The female of the waterfowl forming part of a gaggle with its male counterpart the gander; an old English board game bearing a picture of said bird; or, a tailor's iron |
