| AQUILEGIA | Form of quail, for example - one standing by a flower (9) |
| BEVY | A flock of quails, for example |
| JAMB | One standing by a door |
| WILDFOWL | Duck, goose or quail, for example (8) |
| RENO | One's standing by a river somewhere in America (4) |
| EGG | Starter of quail for instance — and goose |
| RESERVIST | One standing by as church abandons service during break ... (9) |
| PARTRIDGE | Section on ledge makes one sort of quail (9) |
| SERENGETI | Director's workplace covers most of the rent backing, for example, One African Grassland (9) |
| PINEAPPLE | Spike, Earl and Dick Davies, for example - one of which produces tropical fruit? (9) |
| VEGETABLE | Check expert eating, for example, one type of food (9) |
| OPERATORS | Ones standing by? |
| EGREGIOUS | Flagrantly bad, for example, one grouse badly treated (9) |
| WOEBEGONE | Network containing ring, for example, one miserable in appearance (9) |
| GLASSWARE | Retorts, for example, one can see through |
| TASTY | Nice bit of stalk hidden by a flower (5) |
| SIGN | One standing by the side of the road |
| BEFRIENDING | Standing by a kind of short conclusion |
| PETAL | Rose part tossed by a flower girl |
| STIGMA | It's modified, genetically modified, by a flower part (6) |
