| OYSTERCATCHERS | Funny story about English fishermen and birds (14) |
| OYSTER | Funny story about English aphrodisiac? |
| EXPENSEACCOUNT | Former writer's story about English rep's costs (7,7) |
| STRONGMINDEDLY | Funny story about MD lending unwisely but firmly (6-8) |
| ANECDOTE | Funny story about broken cane and love (8) |
| PENGUIN | Welsh word internationally adopted for the black-and-white flightless seafowl known to fishermen and sailors of old as a great auk (7) |
| COMPTROLLERS | Company member takes on fishermen and financial officers (12) |
| PETER | Patron saint of fishermen and locksmiths (5) |
| YEARN | Long story about English leader |
| SHAGGY | Funny story about a canine? (6) |
| YORKIST | Funny story about king by one supporting royal house |
| STRONGLY | Extremely funny story about Nigel's odd bits (8) |
| SMOCK | Loose overgarment traditionally worn by rural workers, Welsh shepherds, Cornish fishermen and some artists (5) |
| HUER | According to Cornish tradition, a cliff-top lookout-man alerting fishermen and townsfolk to the arrival of approaching pilchard shoals (4) |
| AGASAGA | A funny story about South Africa, a form of rural fiction (3,4) |
| DURRELL | Author who wrote about his childhood growing up in Corfu in books including My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives (7) |
| CORFU | Immortalised in Gerald Durrell's autobiographical trilogy that includes My Family and other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives, one of the greenest of the Greek islands (5) |
| LEAR | Painter of landscapes and birds who introduced The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in his Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (4) |
| SPODE | English potter credited with perfecting bone china and underglaze transfer printing for fine tableware, including his own range, patterned with animals and birds of the British woodlands, blue Italian |
| MAGNETICFIELD | Compasses and birds (and, it seems, cows) use this phenomenon to indicate direction (8,5) |
