| COVEY | Flock of partridges |
| COVEYS | Dropping some number, carries flocks of partridges |
| RUBENS | Flemish painter whose landscape of a crisp autumn morning in Het Steen details his chateau with a charm of finches, covey of partridges, hunter and a stalking hound set in meadows, parkland, pasturage |
| ONE | Number of partridges "my true love sent to me" |
| EMBRACE | A hug for me returning with a pair of partridges, say (7) |
| CONFER | Impart tail-spin in a hatch of partridges (6) |
| BRACES | Suspenders with which to support one's trousers; pairs of partridges or other game birds; "curly" punctuation marks; or, accolades in musical notation (6) |
| RIDGEPIECE | Given slice of partridge pie, centenarians beam |
| QUAIL | Flinch; bird of partridge family (5) |
| NEPAL | Country man consumes starter of partridge |
| ROASTBEEF | Meat course: cooked breast of partridge, ultimately |
| TRUELOVE | Real score in tennis for donor of partridge in pear tree (4,4) |
| GRIDART | Aesthetic puzzle creation formed by anagramming the middle seven letters of "partridge": 2 wds. |
| ARABLE | From the Latin meaning "to plough", type of farmland suitable for growing crops, sometimes used as the nesting habitat of lapwings, grey partridges and other birds (6) |
| LAURIE | One of TV's Partridges |
| DEY | Susan who played one of the Partridges |
| GIVETHEGAMEAWAY | Split and dispose of the partridges, perhaps (4,3,4,4) |
| LEGS | Cuts of venison turn certain partridges red (4) |
| REDLEGS | Partridges with colourful limbs (7) |
| BIRDS | Partridges, turtledoves, and French hens |
