| INDEPENDENCEJAY | Film about a flocking bird who wants to fly solo? |
| BIRDY | '85 Cannes Special Jury Prize winner w/ Matthew Modine, who wants to fly . . . on his own. |
| CROWDING | Flocking bird dying to leave yard (8) |
| TROUPIAL | Colourful flocking bird of South America (8) |
| SINATRA | Frank wants to fly to the moon (7) |
| TAWNYOWL | Want to fly with a shrill cry? This bird will do (5,3) |
| BANNERS | Did prohibitionists want to fly the flags? (7) |
| EAGLE | *Steve Miller Band: "I want to fly like an ___" |
| DOVEACTUALLY | Film about a bird who is constantly mistaken for a common pigeon? |
| LOONSTRUCK | Film about a diving bird who collides with a snorkeler? |
| WREN | A "druid, seer, tree-knower" in Welsh, vocally punching above its weight and flocking in a herd or a chime - the robin redbreast's "cave-dwelling" feathered troglodyte wife "Jenny" in a folk song and |
| STORKS | Computer animated adventure about a bird who needs to deliver a baby before his boss finds out (6) |
| QUENTINQUAIL | Cartoon short featuring a bird who was a precursor to Tweety |
| STARLING | Garden bird known collectively as a murmuration during its winter flocking ritual (8) |
| SOUTH | Where a flock may be flocking to |
| PIRATE | Shady seaman with a pet bird who might have ordered a man to walk the plank |
| BUDGIE | Bird who tends to repeat everything is friendly to solider at second recital (6) |
| WESTSIDESTORK | 2021 movie about a bird who lives in Riverside Park? |
| PASTORAL | A book on the care of "flocking" souls; or, a bucolic opera, play, poem, romance, symphony or watercolour, characteristically depicting the idealised rustic life of shepherds in the countryside (8) |
| SHAUNTHESHEEP | This cartoon animal has fans flocking to his show (5,3,5) |
