| GOLDCREST | In Wolves colour, top winger |
| SWALLOW | Flounder taking on Spurs' top winger |
| PIGEON | Private investigator getting information about Orient's top winger (6) |
| EVILSOWN | Devil's spawn in wolves? Unlikely (4-4) |
| INKCAP | Fungus in wolves making a comeback (3-3) |
| AKELA | Fake laugh takes in Wolves' captain? |
| SERAPHIM | Outside right, cunningly, apes the fellow top wingers |
| KIGHTLY | Michael ___ , Burnley winger formerly at Wolves and Stoke who spent time in 2016-17 on loan at Burton Albion (7) |
| DUNBAR | Costner role in "Dances With Wolves" |
| TONYTHEINDIAN | Main character in the film Danzas With Wolves? |
| KEVINCOSTNER | Self-directed in 'Dances with Wolves' |
| PAWNEE | Tribe in "Dances With Wolves" |
| TEAROOM | Wolves, say, with small herbivore in cafe (3,4) |
| LOBOS | Wolves in New Mexico |
| BRANCH | Michael ...... , Wolves forward signed from Everton in 2000 (6) |
| FACEPACK | Confront Wolves, say, in the mud (4,4) |
| FROGGATT | Steve ___, 1990s Aston Villa, Wolves and Coventry winger (8) |
| ICEPACK | Wolves after kill in America - a potential spine-chiller |
| SNOWDEVIL | Cold Canadian whirlwind distressed wolves in dark initially (4,5) |
| ALPACA | Nearly all the wolves entering in the manner of a domesticated animal (6) |
