| WILDFOWL | Inhabiting the Slimbridge haven founded by Sir Peter Scott, type of water bird such as a duck or swan (8) |
| WATERFOWL | Aquatic bird such as a duck, goose or swan, or any one of those inhabiting the wetlands founded by Sir Peter Scott at Slimbridge (9) |
| KISS | SWA* |
| ECLIPSES | Obscurations of the Sun, the Moon or of the seasonal plumage of a bird, such as a duck or a loon (8) |
| CRANE | Type of water bird |
| WATERBIRD | Such as a duck or swan |
| SLIMBRIDGE | The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust reserve on the Severn estuary founded by Peter Scott in 1946 (10) |
| GOOSE | Web-footed long-necked water bird such as the greylag (5) |
| CREST | Tuft of feathers on the head of a bird such as a cockatoo, grey crowned crane or waxwing; or, a heraldic device on some coats of arms above the torse (5) |
| BLOB | A unit of mass equal to 12 slugs; a duck or score of zero in cricket; a dab or spot of colour; or, a globule (4) |
| WARBLER | From the Old French meaning "to sing with trills and quavers", an oscine bird such as a blackcap, chiffchaff or whitethroat; or, by extension, any songster or vocalist with a similar modulated or vibr |
| PEBBLE | Pocket-sized rock, polished by the tide, evocative of a duck or a drake when skimmed on the water's glide (6) |
| BUNTING | Decorative string of colourful flags; or, a bird such as a yellowhamer (7) |
| CARUNCLE | A wattle of a bird such as a turkey (8) |
| GRAS | The liver of a duck or goose fattened by gavage (4,4) |
| FOIE | The liver of a duck or goose fattened by gavage (4,4) |
| WADERS | Tall boots for fly-fishing; or, water birds such as sandpipers (6) |
| BEHN | Painted by Sir Peter Lely and remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Charles II's spy who penned Oroonoko (4) |
| SCOTT | Peter ___, British naturalist who founded the Slimbridge refuge for waterfowl (5) |
| BROWN | George Mackay -; Orcadian author whose novel Magnus was adapted into a chamber opera by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (5) |
