| YELLOWHAMMERS | Cirl bunting-like birds of open countryside with songs likened by some ornithologists to the phrase |
| MONTAGU | With several species named after him including a blenny and a harrier, the author of Ornithological Dictionary who first distinguished the cirl bunting from the yellowhammer (7) |
| ATOM | Basic unit of matter consisting of Rutherford's "gold foil" discovery of a tiny-massive nucleus within a cloud of electrons likened by said scientist to planets orbiting the sun (4) |
| CARDINAL | Senior Roman Catholic priest; scarlet colour; a species of fritillary butterfly; or, a bunting-like bird (8) |
| SWAN | Bird some ornithologists wanted |
| HENHARRIER | Bird of open country |
| SANDGROUSE | Ground-dwelling bird of open country in Africa and Asia (10) |
| COLIBRI | Hummingbird; bio cirl (anag.) |
| BROOM | Gorse-like shrub of heaths and areas of open countryside/woodland; or, linked with "wagon" for the vehicle known in French as the "voiture balai" following the last rider in a road cycle race (5) |
| SWEEP | A chimney cleaner; a long oar; a curved drive, road or stretch of open countryside; or, the squeaky puppet pal of Sooty and Soo (5) |
| ORGAN | "King of instruments" according to Mozart which gave rise to the phrase "pull out all the stops" (5) |
| TRAIL | Type of footpath through the countryside with long-distance examples including the Cotswold Way, Pennine Way, South West Coast Path and the Yorkshire Wolds Way (5) |
| FELT | Baize-like fabric whose former "carroting" method of construction was thought to have given rise to the phrase "mad as a hatter" (4) |
| VIEW | From the Latin meaning "to see", a prospect or sight of something such open countryside or other natural scenery; or, a work of art or a photograph depicting thus (4) |
| TWEEDY | Like well-off people in the countryside with an interest in horses, dogs etc? (6) |
| SPARROWS | Small finch-like birds of the genus Passer and related genera (8) |
| KESTRELS | Small falcons of open countryside, sometimes called windhovers (8) |
| PLAIN | Uncluttered area of open countryside (5) |
| BARNOWL | Inhabiting open countryside and farmland, a protected species of "indicator" bird of prey with a heartshaped face and buff/white plumage (4,3) |
| TITLARK | Songbird with streaky brown plumage that lives on the ground in open countryside. (7) |
