| HARRIERS | Hounds or birds (8) |
| SPOTTERS | General word for hobbyists or enthusiasts who enjoy observing things such as planes, trains, rocks or birds (8) |
| RELAYS | Contests between teams; fresh sets of hounds or horses to relieve others in hunting or on journeys; or, electrically-operated switches (6) |
| PACKS | Bundles borne on the back; beautifying clay or mud treatments; scrums of rugby forwards; or, groups of hunting hounds or wolves (5) |
| KENNEL | Word for a dog's house or hut that derives from the Latin name for said creature; a pack of hounds; or, the den or lair of a fox (6) |
| CRY | A plea, shout or urgent appeal; a fit of weeping; a pack of hounds or their hunting bay; a proclamation of a town's bellringer; or, the call of a street-trader selling goods (3) |
| DRIFT | A mass of snow or leaves, piled up by the wind; a large spread of daffodils, snowdrops or other flowering plants; a flock of cattle or birds; a heavy shower of rain/sleet; or, loose fluvioglacial or g |
| WALK | Gait slower than a run or a horse's trot; a farm for training puppy hounds; or, a flock of wagtails (4) |
| PACK | Set of playing cards; or, a group of hounds or wolves (4) |
| KENNELS | Packs of hounds; or, hut-like shelters or outbuildings for dogs (7) |
| DOGDOM | World/realm of canines, hounds or pooches and their enthusiasts or canophilists collectively (6) |
| HELLO | A song by Adele, Oasis or Lionel Richie named after a greeting originally used as a hunting cry to urge hounds or call in the field (5) |
| CAST | A throw of a die, fishing-line or sounding lead; a squint of the eye; the directing of a pack of hounds; or, the collective actors in a play (4) |
| NAGS | Hounds or badgers |
| BAY | Sound like hounds or one among horses (3) |
| BADGERS | Burrowing animals — hounds or nags |
| CURSOR | Hounds or pointer on screen (6) |
| DOGCOLLARS | Loops forming couples for hounds; or, clerical neckbands (3,7) |
| WREN | Architect and scientist who co-founded the Royal Society; or, one of a "chime" or "herd" or birds (4) |
| FEATHER | The wake or wave caused by submarine's raised periscope; an item used to make a quill pen or part of a fletching; or, birds collectively (7) |
