| MAORIHEN | Flying rhea? No I’m a flightless bird |
| PERLMAN | Rhea ?, actress wife of Danny DeVito (7) |
| HARE | Animal mixed up with rhea? (4) |
| EMU | A far western suburb starting with a flightless bird (3,6) |
| PLAINS | A far western suburb starting with a flightless bird (3,6) |
| RATITE | A flightless bird, such as the ostrich, kiwi or rhea (6) |
| KIWI | A flightless bird; a fuzzy-skinned edible fruit (4) |
| EMULATE | Match up to a flightless bird no longer with us (7) |
| OSTRICH | Flying chariot's without a flightless bird (7) |
| GENTOO | Excessively dope, initially, a flightless bird (6) |
| HEARHEAR | A flightless bird in her grasp? Right on! (4,4) |
| RHEA | Mother of Zeus; a flightless bird |
| SPEARHEAD | Van went fast to catch a flightless bird |
| LEGUME | Vegetable initially like, for example, a flightless bird retreating! (6) |
| FEMUR | Bone of a flightless bird with extremely fair skin (5) |
| REAR | Behind a flightless bird, we're told (4) |
| SAMOA | A flightless bird once associated with south Pacific state |
| OWLPARROT | The kakapo, a flightless bird found in New Zealand (3-6) |
| WEIRDO | “I’m a creep, I’m a ____” (Creep, Radiohead) |
| OSTRICHFERN | *Botanical specimen whose fronds resemble a flightless bird's plumes |
