| SKYLARKS | Birds described in poems by Shelley, Wordsworth, Meredith and Hughes (8) |
| SKYLARK | Avian subject of poems by Shelley and Wordsworth |
| OPCODES | Instructions to computers hidden in poems by wacky cop (7) |
| EPISODE | Incident is described in poem (7) |
| MOB | A riotous or disorderly crowd; the rabble; a gang; a group of kangaroos; or, a flock of the birds described in 18 Down (3) |
| ODYSSEUS | Hero in poem by American about yard and ship (8) |
| LARKS | Sky-; flocking in an "exaltation" or a "happiness" and heard in Pink Floyd's Goodbye Blue Sky, songbirds that inspired Shelley and Meredith and in turn Vaughan Williams (5) |
| CROWS | Birds described by line in Lewis initially |
| PAULETTEGODDARD | American actress and socialite whose husbands included Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith and Erich Maria Remarque (8,7) |
| SNARK | Creature hunted in poem by Lewis Carroll (5) |
| ODER | European river featured in poem by rector (4) |
| SPARROW | Known collectively as a quarrel or an ubiquity, one of the birds described as an "LBJ" or "LBB" (7) |
| STAR | Cohort of Meredith and Joy |
| WESTWIND | Ode to the ___ ___ : a poem by Shelley ? (4,4) |
| QUEENMAB | Philosophical poem by Shelley (5,3) |
| LYNMOUTH | North Devon fishing village visited by Shelley in 1812 (8) |
| FUNNIEST | Clip show presented by Shelley Craft, Australia's ... Home Videos (8) |
| CHAMBERS | Cheers character played by Shelley Long (5,8) |
| THECENCI | Verse tragedy by Shelley based a 1599 murder (3,5) |
| ROC | Giant mythical bird described in the Arabian Nights (3) |
