| CLOSINGDOWN | First of the chickens moulting as programmes finishing once (7,4) |
| THEARCHER | Sign programme's finishing early (3,6) |
| RESEARCHER | As programme assistant her career's ruined (10) |
| REDEYE | Undesirable colour in shot, as programme finally in colour again? |
| RANCH | Sprinted to two of the chickens in the American farm (5) |
| HENS | This particular part of Carmarthenshire is where many of the chickens which supply shops with eggs are kept (4) |
| WISHBONE | Part of the chicken's offensive formation (8) |
| CASTINGVOTE | Poll moulting first, it decides the tie (7, 4) |
| PARSONSNOSE | Mean children dressing one's end of the chicken (7,4) |
| MEW | An imitative word for the high-pitched cry of a cat/kitten or gull; the gull itself; a cage for hawks while moulting; or, a coop, hide, place of confinement or retreat generally (3) |
| TAHITI | Island that's the origin of the chicken dish poulet fafa |
| SHED | Lose hair as a result of moulting |
| ROOSTS | Chicken abodes (as in the saying "The chickens are coming home to...")... |
| FLAP | Do part of the chicken dance |
| LEG | Best part of the chicken, to some |
| POX | Disease that might be of the chicken or small variety |
| AFRAID | A full-frontal assault of the chicken (6) |
| LUISA | Opera star Tetrazzini (she of the chicken dish) |
| RUN | Show a film of the chicken enclosure (3) |
| POULTRYGEIST | ___: Night of the Chicken Dead, comedy-horror film (12) |
