| ROOKERY | Colony of birds (7) |
| HERONRY | Praise as before all round concerning colony of birds |
| SWANNERY | A managed colony of birds such as the one at Abbotsbury in Dorset, written records of which go back to 1393 |
| BATAVIA | Capital of the former colony of Dutch East Indies, now the city of Jakarta, Indonesia (7) |
| ROCKERY | Breeding colony of large black birds; Garden for alpine plants (7) |
| TUNISIA | Northernmost country of Africa, a colony of France from 1881 until 1956 (7) |
| BEEHIVE | Colony of social insects (7) |
| ANTHILL | A problem besetting one of many a colony of insects (3-4) |
| CULTURE | The customs, civilization and achievements of a particular time or people / growth and colony of bacteria in a prepared nourishing substance / refinement; breeding |
| FAEROES | Relating to a self-governing colony of Denmark (7) |
| ERITREA | East African country that was a colony of Italy until 1941 (7) |
| ACADIAN | Relating to a colony of New France in the north-eastern North America (7) |
| GILBERT | Sir Humphrey, 16c English navigator who founded the colony of St. John's, Newfoundland (7) |
| ROANOKE | Lost colony of the 1580s |
| SHIVERY | Trembling, seeing second colony of bees by railway |
| ROSEATE | Ireland's Rockabill Island has the largest European colony of ____ terns |
| NORMANS | In the 11th century, England became a colony of these conquerors |
| BLOCKOF | Colony of flying mammals in 16Ac's high-rise (5,2,5) |
| CAPHAITIEN | Port in N Haiti; capital of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue from 1711-70 (3-7) |
| HIVE | Skep or box forming an apiary for a colony of honeybees of the same name; thus, a place of great industry or busyness; or, a teeming crowd (4) |
