| HOBBY | Falcon, favourite pursuit (5) |
| HOBBYIST | Person engaged in a favourite pursuit (8) |
| HOBBIES | Favourite pursuits - of birds |
| PETER | Actor who played Joel Cairo in 1941 film drama The Maltese Falcon (5,5) |
| CREST | Jane Wyman's '80s soap, Falcon ... (5) |
| SAKER | Falcon of eastern Europe and Asia (5) |
| SCOTT | South Pole explorer, Robert Falcon ..... (5) |
| HOBBS | Bird of prey in the falcon family (5) |
| HORUS | Falcon-headed god of ancient Egypt (5) |
| ASTOR | Maltese Falcon leading lady? Mary...? O, rats! (5) |
| SPADE | Sam ___, detective in The Maltese Falcon (5) |
| STOOP | Dive by a peregrine falcon, e.g. (5) |
| LORRE | Peter ___, actor whose roles included Joel Cairo in 1941 film drama The Maltese Falcon (5) |
| MALTA | In 1530, an island received by the Knights Hospitaller in a perpetual lease from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in exchange for an annual fee of a falcon (5) |
| LAMAS | Played Lance Cumson in 1980s series Falcon Crest, Lorenzo ----- (5) |
| CLIFF | Steep rock face of coast, mountain, gorge or quarry, sometimes inhabited by a peregrine falcon (5) |
| EYRIE | The nest of a hawk, eagle, falcon, etc. (5) |
| OATES | Lawrence, British army officer who died with Robert Falcon Scott on his 1912 Antarctic expedition (5) |
| LANDO | Calrissian, who lost the Millennium Falcon in a bet (5) |
| FOCAL | Through the scope's plane, a wild falcon loses its tail (5) |
