| LAURELANDHARDY | Comedians Stan and Oliver with "The Cuckoo Song" theme |
| CHEETAH | One of the cats, each with the cuckoo |
| WATERHYACINTH | Canary with the cuckoo flower (5,8) |
| ANTONYM | AB Oliver, with my backing, produced a contrary word (7) |
| TWISTER | Oliver, with some hesitation, becoming a crook |
| TRA | "The ___ La La Song" (theme from "The Banana Splits") |
| STRIKE | Cormoran -; character in a book series of the same name that begins with The Cuckoo's Calling (6) |
| WALTZINGMATILDA | National song, theme of today's puzzle |
| REVULSION | Oliver's with a Parisian falsely expressing disgust (9) |
| LAUREL | Bestow an award on comedian Stan (6) |
| INGRID | --- Oliver, comedian and actress, half of the Watson & Oliver double act (6) |
| CAROLREED | Director of the classic films The Third Man and Oliver! |
| AIKEN | Author of children's books including The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Nightbirds on Nantucket and The Cuckoo (5) |
| RAGGEDROBIN | A campion in bloom during the months when cuckoos call, hence the latter part of its Latin name floscuculi meaning "flower of the cuckoo" (6,5) |
| COCOAPUFFS | *Cereal that Sonny the Cuckoo Bird is "cuckoo for" |
| ARUM | The cuckoo-pint provides spirit with a head (4) |
| FIGHTER | Plane tree whose leaves conceal the cuckoo and rook |
| INANEST | Most like a cuckoo where the cuckoo lays? (7) |
| KEEN | Diane _, actress who played Fliss Hawthorne in the sitcom The Cuckoo Waltz (4) |
| GOOSE | The Cuckoo and Casualty actor, Claire ----- (5) |
