| EIDERS | Birds from island nesting in arrangement of reeds (6) |
| PETREL | Bird from island avoiding exotic reptile (6) |
| STREAM | Mist enveloping top of reeds in brook (6) |
| ISOMER | One of two compounds differing in arrangement of the same atoms |
| BUSTER | Mastery present in arrangement of Schubert's fastmoving song (5,6) |
| SUDOKU | Lots of squares taking in arrangements of basic numbers -- it's puzzling (6) |
| RUSHES | Provisional film shots of reeds (6) |
| THATCH | A roof of reed, rush or straw, banned in London in 1212 after a major fire (6) |
| CREBER | Thick, frequent; "____ harundinibus ... lucus" (Ovid Met 11.190), a grove full of reeds (6) |
| DERIDE | Make a mockery of reed I'd bent into shape (6) |
| HOLLOW | Stems of reed plants are this (6) |
| BEATER | Person employed to rouse game birds from woodland; one of a pair of attachments of a food mixer; or, a percussion mallet (6) |
| HAWKER | A man synonymous with the birds from Merchants Market (6) |
| ASSUME | Adopt a son, setting up fast birds from down under (6) |
| IBISES | Stork-like birds, from sibs, that is |
| UMBILICUS | Sign of important connection university library recalled in arrangement of music |
| COMBOVER | Group of musicians ___ Queen ___ suppressing volume in arrangement of Hair piece (8) |
| WORDORDER | Promise shown by group of monks in arrangement of text? (4,5) |
| CHART | Mastery present in arrangement of Schubert's fastmoving song (5,6) |
| EMPHASIS | Special importance of piano in arrangement of Messiah |
