| SLUMPED | Fallen plumes arranged end to end (7) |
| ANECDOTES | Arranged end to case histories, perhaps (9) |
| STEADY | Firm dates arranged. End of May (6) |
| FEATHER | One of those Prince of Wales' plumes given as a name to Celosia argentea (7) |
| ASTILBE | Genus of plant with feathery flower plumes - it's able to vary (7) |
| OSPREYS | Fish-hawks; or, egret plumes formally used in millinery (7) |
| PEACOCK | Bird with large striking plumes (7) |
| OSTRICH | Big bird whose plumes evoke name of - - - - - - - feather fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris (7) |
| HACKLES | A cockerel's raised neck plumage; plumes on tam-o'-shanters. balmorals, glengarries and other regimental bonnets; or, fly-fishing feathers (7) |
| MARABOU | Name, derived from the Arabic meaning "holy man", for an adjutant bird; its downy plumes as a trimming; a feather necklet; or, raw white silk (7) |
| CRISTAS | Plumes on helmets (acc.), eg Aen. 12.493 |
| ALIASES | Nom de plumes |
| FEATHERONESNETS | Attach plumes to your seines? |
| QUANTUMLEAPS | Fashionista, one in exotic plumes, makes sudden advances (7,5) |
| FEATHERBOZ | Attach plumes to singer Scaggs? |
| FEATHERS | Plumes known to archers as fletchings (8) |
| OSTRICHES | Beginning to go off most with wealth and those sporting fancy plumes (9) |
| BIRD | General word for a vertebrate protected by the society that was founded to counter the former trade in egret plumes for women's hats (4) |
| AIGRETTES | French word for little white herons that also refers to their plumes that once adorned headdresses; or, sprays of jewels resembling such (9) |
| KINGOFSAXONY | This "royal" bird of paradise has two head plumes decorated with small sky-blue squares, so unusual-looking they were first thought to be fake. |
