| WYANDOTTE | Chicken of a new, dotty sort |
| BRAILLE | Liberal's new, dotty messages? (7) |
| ANCONA | Capital of the Marches region of Italy from which a chicken of a breed with black-and-white mottled plumage, white earlobes and a single/rose comb originates (6) |
| BANTAM | Chicken of a small breed |
| ASHEN | Like chicken of a whitish hue (5) |
| ROCKCORNISH | Stocky chicken of a breed that is kept for its meat (4,7) |
| POLKA | Dance in a dotty sort of way (5) |
| SEA | Chicken of the ___ (brand of tuna) |
| FUNGI | Kingdom of mycological life that includes the chicken of the woods, elf cups, ink-caps, King Alfred's cakes, penny-buns and puffballs (5) |
| THESEA | Chicken of ___ (tuna brand) |
| TUNA | Fish sold by Chicken of the Sea |
| MERMAID | Chicken of the Sea symbol |
| IGUANA | In the Caribbean it's known as "the chicken of the trees" |
| MYCOLOGY | Study of puffballs, shaggy ink-caps, chickens-of-the-woods, truffles and other fungi (8) |
| TUNAS | Chickens of the sea |
| IGUANAS | In South America they're known as "gallinas de palo," or "chickens of the tree" |
| DRIFT | Group of swans on water; a swarm of honeybees in search of a new colony; a drove of cattle; or, a carpet of snowdrops (5) |
| DAWN | Just as morning marks the start of a new day, January is the ___ of a new year |
| ERA | From the Latin for "counters for calculation" or "brass/copper money", a division of geochronological or chronological time; a starting point of a new age; or, an important date (3) |
| SEAWATER | A rise in the surface temperature of this, in the western Pacific, heralds the arrival of a new El Nino with drought for Australia and floods for Peru |
