| REWRITTEN | Had altered the piece about the wren and tit flying in |
| PADS | Makes the piece about the cushions longer? (4) |
| KITTEN | Will tit flying in know it's a young enemy? (6) |
| BEDSIT | Leading backbencher gets to cut the piece about school accommodation in The House (6) |
| ENTITY | Something found in the wren, tit, yellowhammer and finch (6) |
| WATER | Had a meal in "The Wren's Head" and a drink (5) |
| CLARINETTIST | Cuckoo, crane and tit circling lake - first one's heard in the reeds (12) |
| NEWBYHALL | Designed by Christopher Wren and later remodelled by Robert Adam, a country house in Yorkshire, home to a collection of Chippendale furniture in the Gobelins Tapestry Room (5,4) |
| WRITHING | Clearly in pain when composing the piece about hospital (8) |
| OWNER | He has the egg and the wren is worried (5) |
| STREWN | Sprinkled on the bottom of the nest the wren built (6) |
| PENGUIN | Write piece about the first figure in Ancient Rome -- emperor, maybe (7) |
| BANDIT | And there's a piece about the robber (6) |
| SOCIETY | Royal -; founded by Robert Boyle, Sir Christopher Wren and others and granted a royal charter by Charles II, the UK's national science academy (7) |
| INCUBATE | Most of the piece about new island is to develop slowly (8) |
| TRIESTE | See tit flying over river in Italian city (7) |
| SOLEOWNER | So the cat that got the wren worried is his: nobody else's (4,5) |
| EIGHTMENOUT | 1988 period piece about the 1919 World Series |
| AMBIT | This morning there's a piece about the scope available (5) |
| ABILITY | A small piece about the Italian youth initially showing talent (7) |
