| QUAIL | Game bird that makes us shrink back with fear |
| COWER | Someone who intimidates us, making us shrink back? |
| SEAGULL | Bird that makes us legal... (7) |
| ANALYST | Rain falls? Yes, it regularly makes us shrink (7) |
| FLINCH | Shrink back with fear (6) |
| BITTERN | A piece of bird that makes a whole bird (7) |
| SGOOSE | A black, dusky, hazel, red, ruffled, sage, spruce or willow game bird that is small and plump, yet its name derives from the Latin word for the tall slender long-legged bird, the crane (6) |
| RECOIL | Draw back with fear or pain |
| RECOILS | Draws back with fear (7) |
| CROQUET | Game bird that in Spain one hears (7) |
| TURKEY | Large game bird that may be wild or ocellated (6) |
| SWALLOW | A bird that makes good eating? (7) |
| CROW | Loud black bird that makes a cawing sound (4) |
| OWL | Bird that makes virtually no noise when its flies |
| EMU | Bird that makes resonant booming sounds |
| TERN | Bird that makes the longest migration in the animal kingdom |
| PARTRIDGE | Grey -; gathering on the ground in a covey, a farmland game bird that thrived on the Western Front in no-man's-land during the First World War (9) |
| PTARMIGAN | Game bird that turns white in winter - pheasant's head on a migrant perhaps (9) |
| SUMO | The kind of wrestling that makes us go back to the doctor! (4) |
| PENGUIN | Any of the 18 species of flightless marine bird that make up the order Sphenisciformes, native almost exclusively to the southern hemisphere (7) |
