| AWN | Bristle dropped by a tawny owl (3) |
| TUWHITTUWHOO | Cry of the tawny owl (2-4,2-4) |
| FROGMOUTH | Tawny -, owl-like bird (9) |
| BROWN | Far from drab, dull or mundane, a colour reflected in things from bears, bronze, brunette hair, cappuccino, chocolate and a horse's mane to HP sauce, meadow butterflies, tawny owls and a "capable" gar |
| OWL | Strigiform whose name is echoed in a word for a candle-waster, dusk, a night train, a nocturnal reveller, a scholarly look, a solemn/wise person, a tawny-black giant moth's name and, onomatopoeically, |
| HIP | Body part lifted and dropped by a belly dancer |
| TAN | A tawny brown colour (3) |
| PARAMOUNT | A soldier dropped by a base first |
| BANHAMMER | Something dropped by a mod on a troll in Twitch chat |
| BROWNOWL | A tawny raptor's alternative name that was adopted as a title of an adult leader of a pack of junior Guides (5,3) |
| GRENADA | Small bomb finally dropped by a Commonwealth country |
| LITTER | Rubbish dropped by a new dam, perhaps? |
| TROU | They're dropped by a fellow about to streak |
| AITCH | Letter dropped by a classic Cockney (5) |
| BEAT | Something dropped by a DJ |
| DOTAGE | Spot religious book dropped by a gent with senility (6) |
| OPERA | Lead in Hitchcock film dropped by a musical drama (5) |
| JUDD | Name dropped by a Music City Hall of Famer |
| TABBYCAT | Feline with a tawny coat mottled with black (5,3) |
| SCENARIO | Screenplay shows bouquet last character's dropped by a Spanish river (8) |
