| CROW | Exercise bragging rights like a true corvid (4) |
| ERA | Source of bullpen bragging rights: Abbr. |
| GEED | Turned right, like a farm mule |
| AVID | Like a true fan |
| ROOK | A card-sharp or cheat; a crow-like cawing corvid; or, a castle in chess (4) |
| GERM | Start turning right, like when joining motorway (4) |
| BLOW | Devastating setback for 16Ac's embarrassed corvid (8,4) |
| JAYS | With a knack of cultivating oak tree saplings hence their Latin name Garrulus glandarius "chattering acorn gatherers", the UK's most colourful corvids (4) |
| ACEIT | Get something exactly right, like a pop quiz or a job interview |
| CAWS | Corvid calls |
| UPTONOGOOD | Goon, drop-out sadly ignoring right - like a criminal? (2,2,2,4) |
| BROTHER | How to rob the Right like a monk (7) |
| ROYAL | Loyal, from left to right, like a king (5) |
| ROSTRAL | Orals, skewed to the right like a beak (7) |
| RENAL | Lane twisting round to the right like a kidney? (5) |
| LAWYERLY | Like a true friend, some might say, and as brief? |
| LOYAL | Like a true friend |
| ADORER | Worship her, you hear, like a true devotee. (6) |
| MAGPIE | Corvid known collectively as a mischief whose name is used to refer to a chatterbox or a hoarder; the outermost-but-one ring on a target; or, slang for a halfpenny (6) |
| HOODEDCROW | Rod, who has a code for modelling a grey Corvid (6,4) |
