| YAFFLES | Green woodpeckers (7) |
| AWLBIRDS | Dialect, along with yaffingales and yaffles, for green woodpeckers (8) |
| ANTS | Insects studied in myrmecology that constitute the majority of the diet of green woodpeckers (4) |
| AWLBIRD | Regional term for the green woodpecker (7) |
| DESCENT | A flock of woodpeckers (7) |
| YUCKERS | American woodpeckers regularly nicking bits of your cake (and The Queen's!) (7) |
| WRENECK | Either of two Old World woodpeckers, such as Jynx torquilla (7) |
| RATATAT | Woodpecker's rap (3-1-3) |
| FLICKER | Woodpecker's bill can accommodate chick's head and tail |
| YAFFLE | Lock out noisy green woodpecker (6) |
| RAIN | Form of precipitation said to be heralded by the call of the green woodpecker, after which blackbirds and mistle-thrushes often sing (4) |
| RAFFLE | Draw green woodpecker striking head next to river |
| RAINBIRD | Green woodpecker or other avian whose call is said to portend cloudbursts, downpours or drizzle (8) |
| AWL | An instrument with a sharp point likened to the hole-boring beak of a green woodpecker (3) |
| YAFFINGALE | An imitative folk name of the green woodpecker aka laughing Betsy (10) |
| SPRITE | From "breath", word for an elf, sylph or water fairy, thus a dainty or impish person; otherwise, a blue riverdamsel; a flash of red lightning; a green woodpecker; or, a spayed ferret (6) |
| YOKEL | From dialectal English for "green woodpecker, yellowhammer", a towny term for a bumpkin, clodhopper, country cousin, hayseed or other supposedly unsophisticated rustic (5) |
| PIE | A quantity of mincemeat, plum, pork or other food/fruit baked under a crust of pastry; or, depicted in a winterscape by Monet, a chattering black-and-white green-tinged bird whose short name in questi |
| SAGUAROS | Desert homes for Gila woodpeckers |
| NUTHOLES | Pantry for some woodpeckers |
