| CROWN | Flock of kingfishers (5) |
| CROWNS | Chief ornaments; diadems; flocks of kingfishers; or, the tops of arches, hats, pineapples or trees |
| REALM | A kingdom/queendom; a "crown" of kingfishers; or, a field of study (5) |
| HALCYON | Genus of some species of kingfishers; or, Ellie Goulding's second album (7) |
| BEEEATERS | Relatives of kingfishers |
| CREST | Kingfisher's coif |
| STUDY | A type of drawing, sketch or painting such as John Ruskin's Kingfisher (5) |
| RIVER | Chalk -; flowing from spring to sea, a watercress-rich habitat of a lowland landscape whose diverse fauna includes salmon, trout, kingfisher and otter (5) |
| PHOTO | Snappy record of e.g. a 'Kingfisher Club' catch (5) |
| DIVER | A frogman, kingfisher, loon, pearl hunter, snorkeller, swimmer or other plunger of watery places (5) |
| BEEEATER | Insectivorous bird related to kingfishers (3-5) |
| HERMITCRABS | They try and live like hermits, but pied kingfishers spear these crustaceans. (6,5) |
| LARK | Bird hiding among spectacular kingfishers (4) |
| MOFMOTS | Tropical American birds akin to the kingfishers (7) |
| MOTMOTS | Tropical American birds akin to the kingfishers (7) |
| DIVERS | Various kingfishers, maybe |
| MOTMOT | Colourful neotropical bird, related to the bee-eaters and kingfishers (6) |
| RIVERS | Watercourses navigable by barge, canoe, punt or skiff whose riparian wildlife includes kingfishers, herons, otters and water voles (6) |
| WETLANDS | Bogs, fens, marshes, reed beds and other freshwater habitats whose species include dippers, herons, kingfishers, otters and water voles (8) |
| HOOPOE | Kingfisher's relative |
