| BALDHEADED | How the coot went for you? (4-6) |
| RAIL | Any bird of the order Rallidae, which includes the coot and corncrake (4) |
| HULLABALOO | In Arthur Ransome's book Coot Club, the children's name for any one of the holidaymakers from the city (10) |
| RANSOME | Author of a series of adventure novels about characters including the Amazons, the Coots, the Hullabaloos and the Swallows |
| COATOFARMS | A coot desperately cultivates heraldic devices (4,2,4) |
| MOORHEN | Red-beaked water bird often confused with the coot (7) |
| MOORHENS | The coot's cousins' hormones are disrupted (8) |
| BADHAIRDAY | Hard time a coot presumably doesn't have? (3,4,3) |
| CRANE | Any large long-necked wading bird of the family Gruidae, related to the coots and rails (5) |
| COCONUTOIL | Uncoil coot to get cooking product (7,3) |
| BAREHEADED | Voicing support, boss at paper protects nut like Coot? |
| RAILS | Steel lines forming train tracks, which one is said to have "gone off" when out of control; batons on which to hang pictures above dados; or, secretive birds in an order that includes the coots and fl |
| ECCENTRICS | Coots |
| BROADS | The -; network of rivers and lakes in Norfolk and Suffolk, setting of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club and The Big Six (6) |
| LOBATE | Like the foot of a grebe or coot (6) |
| OCELOT | Coot's upset about the Spanish wild cat (6) |
| SOFT | Type of rod that bends right down to its butt section (*coot faints) (4,6) |
| ACTION | Type of rod that bends right down to its butt section (*coot faints) (4,6) |
| COVERT | Word for a woody thicket in which game can hide; feathers concealing the quill-bases of wings; any shelter or disguise; or, a flock of coots (6) |
| AUNT | Relative 'abitat of coot or hern (4) |
