| PSITTACOSIS | Infectious disease of parrots and other birds that can be transmitted to humans (11) |
| LEAR | Author of literary nonsense and illustrated travel books who was a talented painter of parrots and Queen Victoria's drawing instructor (4) |
| APES | Parrots and other creatures |
| EMUS | Birds that can be 6.5 feet tall |
| LORRY | It's right at heart of parrot and may be articulated (5) |
| POLYHEDRON | Solid sound of parrot and wading bird clashing around back of shed (10) |
| ANTHRAX | Infectious disease of cattle and sheep that can be transmitted to man (7) |
| MODES | A device that converts data to a form that can be transmitted to a data-processing equipment |
| INHERITABLE | Capable of being transmitted to later generation (11) |
| CURVEBILLED | Like some parrots and parakeets |
| DOUBLEDUTCH | Bud transmitted to the cloud? Gibberish! (6,5) |
| ZOONOTIC | Describing a disease that can be transmitted naturally from animals to humans (8) |
| ZOONOSIS | Disease, such as rabies, anthrax etc. that can be transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans (8) |
| LYME | ___ disease, a virus transmitted to humans by ticks, affecting the joints, heart and nervous system (4) |
| LEPTOSPIROSIS | Infectious disease transmitted to humans from animals (13) |
| ARABLE | From the Latin meaning "to plough", type of farmland suitable for growing crops, sometimes used as the nesting habitat of lapwings, grey partridges and other birds (6) |
| MACAW | Largest of the parrots and one of the world's most colourful birds (5) |
| SQUAWKS | Raucous cries of parrots or other birds; loud complaints; or, transponder codes of aircraft (7) |
| FANS | Handheld concertinas for manually creating currents of air; or, the outspread train-feathers of peacocks and other birds (4) |
| SONGS | General word for the vocalisations of thrushes, wrens, robins, finches and other birds forming a dawn chorus (5) |
