| REYNARD | Folk-name for the red fox (7) |
| AWLBIRD | Dialect or folk name for the green woodpecker or yaffle (7) |
| PEEWIT | Folk name for the lapwing |
| CHRISCHATAWAY | London-born athlete nicknamed 'The Red Fox' who helped Roger Bannister to the first sub-four minute mile in 1954 (5,8) |
| HAIRS | Guard ___ (coat parts of Prince Edward Island provincial animal the Red Fox) |
| SPINNER | Folk name for a nightjar; a trout lure; a rapidly rotating cricket ball delivered by a bowler of the same name; or, a whirligig (7) |
| CORNISH | ___ chough, traditional name for the red-billed corvid Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax (7) |
| MAGENTA | Another name for the red dye fuchsine (7) |
| CAPROIG | Mallorcan name for the red scorpion fish, a popular item on many restaurant menus on the Island (3,4) |
| BEARCAT | Informal name for the red panda |
| TALLHAT | One name for the red and white headgear accompanying a famous fictional cat's bow tie |
| GRIGSON | Co-founder and editor of New Verse whose 1955 The Englishman's Flora anthologises some 6,000 folk names, from cuckoo pint, jack-by-the-hedge and kitty-come-down-the-lane-jump-up-and-kiss-me to monksho |
| YAFFLES | An imitative folk name of green "awlbirds" or "nicker peckers" (7) |
| ERITREA | Country of NE Africa whose name derives from the Greek for the Red Sea, on which it stands (7) |
| SUBPLOT | Was The Hunt for the Red October one of these? (7) |
| BARBARASBUTTONS | Folk name for plants in the sunflower tribe, native to the southern US (8, 7) |
| ATALANTA | Mythological Greek huntress whose name is recalled in the scientific name for the red admiral (8) |
| TSUNODA | Who replaced Liam Lawson as the second driver for the Red Bull Race F1 team this year? (7) |
| ENDORSE | Sanction the change for the red ones |
| ACTAEARUBRA | Latin name for the red baneberry! (6,5) |
