| SWIFT | Graham -, author of the novels Shuttlecock and Waterland (5) |
| GREENE | Graham -; author of the novel Brighton Rock, the play The Potting Shed and the collection of verse Babbling April (6) |
| GRAHAMSWIFT | Author of the novels Shuttlecock and Mothering Sunday (6,5) |
| IRONS | Jeremy of 'Waterland' |
| SMASH | A powerful overarm volley of a tennis ball or shuttlecock (5) |
| BATTLEDORE | Short name of a game played with a shuttlecock and rackets that was a forerunner of badminton (10) |
| LINEHAN | Graham -, writer of Channel 4 TV comedy series The IT Crowd (7) |
| BADMINTON | Racket sport played with a shuttlecock and a high net (9) |
| SERVE | Launch, as a shuttlecock |
| SEMIAQUATIC | Like the beaver's waterland life |
| HUNGARY | Country that hosted Waterland Feeder Masters 2023 (7) |
| CHILDREN | Battledore and shuttlecock is a ___'s game that has been played in Asia and Europe for centuries (8) |
| OSTRICH | Flightless African bird or plant otherwise known as the shuttlecock fern (7) |
| BADMINTONCOURT | Shuttlecock hitters' playing area (9,5) |
| BATTLE | The fight Dore had with a shuttlecock (6) |
| CRESTARUN | Icy bob run in St Moritz with the hair-raising shuttlecock bend (6,3) |
| HITUPON | Discovered by accident - like a badminton player when the shuttlecock is stuck on a rafter (3,4) |
| BIRDIE | Badminton is played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock, also known as a ___ (6) |
| BIRD | A feathered vertebrate, such as the onomatopoeically named chachalaca, chickadee, chat, chiffchaff, corncrake, cuckoo or curlew; or, a shuttlecock (4) |
| BADMINTONTEN | Decuplet playing with a shuttlecock? |
