| PARAKEET | Find a comb inside favourite bird. (8) |
| HIVE | Where to find a comb |
| HECKLING | Using a comb is challenging (8) |
| CATACOMB | Place a comb next to cat in crypt (8) |
| ROBIN | With a melancholic autumn call after its moult, Britain's favourite bird, said by Aristotle to transform into a redstart in the summer and vice-versa in the winter (5) |
| PETTICOAT | Favourite bird holds firm to a slip |
| MANTILLA | Lace or silk scarf covering the shoulders and head, worn over a comb in the hair, especially in Spain (8) |
| HONEYBEE | One with a comb |
| HARLEQUIN | Columbine's favourite bird |
| PENGUIN | Writer starts to get upset with favourite bird (7) |
| EAGLE | Golfer's favourite bird of prey (5) |
| NIGHTJARS | Boozy insomniac's favourite birds? (9) |
| TOOTH | A dent or pearly white to which a cog of a wheel, tine of a comb or jag of a leaf/saw/shell is likened (5) |
| RAKE | An implement consisting of a pole with a crossbar, toothed like a comb at the end for drawing together leaves, hay, etc., |
| CREST | A comb or tuft of feathers on a bird's head (5) |
| RAKER | One who scrapes together grass, hay, leaves, straw etc with a comb-like crossbar on a long handle; said implement used; or, a scavenger (5) |
| CRESTED | (Bird) having a comb (7) |
| HONEY | Endearment one may find with a comb |
| BIRTHDAYCARD | . . . on this, perhaps - and hard by it, oddly, a comb (8,4) |
| FASCINATOR | A woman's decorative headpiece with flowers, beads etc attached to a comb or hair clip (10) |
