| RHEIMS | Borders capturing man in place of jackdaw (6) |
| FALCON | Female cheat capturing man's bird of prey (6) |
| VATICAN | Small state in India defended by two vessels, cavalry on the borders capturing it (7,4) |
| PEKING | Gym instruction by top man in place of games once (6) |
| URGENT | Critical man in place of Abraham? (6) |
| CORVID | A crow or one of the distinct but closely related members of its family, such as a chough, jackdaw, jay, magpie, raven or rook (6) |
| MAGPIE | One of a conventicle, gulp, mischief or tidings of corvids with alleged thieving tendencies like their relatives, the jackdaws (6) |
| CORVUS | Genus of birds including crows, jackdaws, ravens and rooks (6) |
| LIEUTENANT | The right-hand man in place of a leaseholder |
| STUD | Virile young man in place of fillies? (4) |
| SCORESHEET | Hearts' man in place for match record (10) |
| ROOST | Skipper attracts good man in place to sit? (5) |
| RAVEN | Known collectively as an unkindness, a buzzard-sized bird related to the crow,jackdaw, jay and rook; one of the avian guardians of the Tower Of London (5) |
| DAWN | Cock-crow... apparent in jackdaw noise! (4) |
| KAIE | Jackdaw flying around one in disused wharf |
| HOODEDCROWS | Jackdaws nesting in a broken cowshed door (6,5) |
| CROW | Any one of the con/ids or "hoodies" forming flocks known collectively as a storytelling whose relatives include the rook, raven, jackdaw, jay and magpie (4) |
| ROOK | Bird related to crows, ravens and jackdaws; or, a chess piece in the form of a battlement (4) |
| KAE | A jackdaw (Scot) (3) |
| CARRIONCROW | Bird related to the rook and jackdaw (7,4) |
