| HERN | Dialect variant of "heron" |
| SWAT | Dialect variant of "perspire", meaning to assiduously cram, briskly revise or vigorously study, perhaps like a proverbial pig (4) |
| EGRET | Name of several species of heron |
| COVER | A variant of "clandestine, hidden, secret", thus a blanket, book jacket, canopy of trees, carpet of woodland flowers, layer of leaves, lid, philatelic envelope, sheet of stratus clouds, thicket for ga |
| AGAMI | In Hinduism, the karma created now, the consequences of which affect future events; a type of heron native to Central and South America |
| MOORHEN | To many a duck, a variety of heron? |
| BITTERN | Type of heron |
| HANDBILL | Head of heron with beak: a flier |
| QUICHELORRAINE | Dish of heron and quail cooked with rice |
| OHHENRY | Sweet treat formed by inserting an anagram of "heron" into _ H _ _ _ _ Y: 2 wds. |
| SIEGE | Group of herons I see fluttering around front of grove (5) |
| CORNERSHOP | Convenient outlet for the contents of heron's crop (6,4) |
| BITTERNS | Types of herons |
| EGRETS | Types of herons |
| ARDEA | Genus of herons (5) |
| SEDGE | A ______ of herons |
| BESIEGE | Exist before company of herons crowd round (7) |
| HERRING | Half of herons call for fish (7) |
| LAMEBRAINPETE | A form of widow game, a variant of Cincinnati, found only in home games, in which each player is dea |
| EMIA | What is a variant of the suffix referring to the state of blood? (4) |
