| HOOTOWL | Common name for the bird Strix varia |
| SPARROWHAWK | Another name for the bird of prey, the American kestrel (7-4) |
| HERON | He has a name for the bird (5) |
| PRUNUSPADUS | Botanical name for the bird cherry tree (6,5) |
| WOODOWL | Name, in reference to its habitation of boscage, forest or other sylvan abode, for the brown/tawny hooting bird of the night, Strix aluco (4,3) |
| OWLISH | Alluding to the birds of the night, such as the tawny examples in the genus Strix, a word meaning solemn or wise in appearance, especially if bespectacled (6) |
| TAWNYOWL | Bird of prey with the Latin name Strix aluco (5,3) |
| EKAHA | Hawaiian name for the birds nest fern (5) |
| BAIGNEUSE | It is a bathing cap, which corresponds to the "dormeuse," or sleeping cap. Originally a cap with a purpose, intended for sleeping or for bathing, it became part of a citizen's everyday wear with varia |
| NEBULOSA | Strix ___ (Scientific name of the Great Grey Owl) |
| TAWNY | - owl; adapted for hunting in woodland, a nocturnal bird with an unmistakable call, Strix aluco (5) |
| URALOWL | Large, nocturnal predatory bird of the genus Strix, native to northern Asia and Scandinavia (4, 3) |
| CROWN | Coronilla varia, a trailing plant of the pea family with pink or purple flowers (5,5) |
| VETCH | Coronilla varia, a trailing plant of the pea family with pink or purple flowers (5,5) |
| USERNAME | ID menus are subject to varia- tion (8) |
| DIVERSA | Varia; turned in different directions; [flumina] ____ locis (Geo 4.367) |
| FIELDFARE | Food at the back of the meadow for the bird (9) |
| MISC | Varia: Abbr. |
| SOLLICITUDINE | In disquiet, as Pliny described in his letter to Calpurnia; infirmitatis tuae ratio incerta et varia ____ exterret (Epistulae 6.4) (abl.) |
| STARLING | Looking around the lake for the bird (8) |
