| SONGBIRDS | Blackbirds, robins and thrushes all belong to this group of British birds (9) |
| PERCUSSION | Xylophone, timpani and glockenspiel all belong to this category of musical instruments |
| IRANIAN | Kurdish and Farsi both belong to this group of languages from the Persian gulf area |
| MARSUPIALS | Wallabies and wombats belong to this group of pouched mammals (10) |
| CRUSTACEA | They are related to crabs and therefore belong to this group. Word sounds like irritable old men. (9) |
| PARTOWNER | He peels around town, though it doesn't all belong to him (4-5) |
| HUMANRACE | We all belong to it |
| INDONESIA | The island of Sumatra belongs to this country (9) |
| PHEASANTS | Countrymen conserving the last British birds (9) |
| BANTU | Zulu belongs to this group of African languages (5) |
| SONGSTERS | Esteemed for their range of trills, warbles, whistles and other melodious vocalisations, the "Oscines" or dawn choristers including the blackbirds, chiffchaffs, great tits, nightingales, robins, thrus |
| THROSTLES | Song thrushes, or machines which draw, twist and wind fibres |
| BONY | Most modern fishes belong to this group, the common name for superclass Osteichthyes. |
| BEWICK | Engraver and ornithologist noted for A History of British Birds and for having a species of swan named in his honour (6 48 African shrike with a similar-sounding name to Yogi Bear's little sidekick (6 |
| FLUSH | In poker and similar games, a hand whose cards all belong to the same suit (5) |
| DOLLARMENU | Budget option at a fast-food joint that the answers to the starred clues could all belong to? |
| PRERAPHAELITE | A member of a group of British painters and writers including Rossetti and Millais, founded in 1848 (3-10) |
| UNIT | A measure of alcohol intake; or, with "One", a group of British artists and sculptors in the 1930s including Frances Hodgkins, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and Ben Nicholson (4) |
| GROUSE | Red -; Galliform of heather moorland used as the emblem of a brand of whisky and the journal British Birds that is Scotland's national game bird (6) |
| KIN | They all belong to the same tree |
