| ARDEA | It's a dear way of trapping the heron and bittern genus! (5) |
| THEEMERALDISLE | In other words, it's a dear green place (3,7,4) |
| HERON | Known collectively as a sedge or a hedge, a wading bird related to the little egret, spoonbill and bittern (5) |
| IBIS | Name a wading bird allied to the heron and stork (4) |
| IBISES | Which wading birds are allied to the herons and storks (6) |
| EELINGPROCESS | System of trapping morays? |
| AGIN | Opposed to one specific means of trapping animals |
| ADORABLE | Lovely girl, capable of trapping (8) |
| SEDGE | Studied in caricology, a grass-like plant of the wetland habits often frequented by bitterns or herons, hence one of the whimsical words for a collective wedge of said waders (5) |
| ACERB | Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste (as unripe fruit) - and four-fifths of the maple genus! (5) |
| REEDS | Wetland grasses with hollow stems providing materials for thatchers and habitats for birds such as marsh harriers and bitterns (5) |
| SIEGE | Form of beleaguerment practised in the art of poliorcetics; or, a word for a company of bitterns or herons (5) |
| SPEED | This well is a blue-flowered weed of the veronica genus! (5) |
| BRASS | Alloy of copper and zinc, found in the cabbage genus! (5) |
| CRATE | Close heartlessly, trapping the animal in the box (5) |
| PINES | Common name for trees of the pinus genus! (5) |
| MARSH | Habitat for rails and bitterns |
| STORK | What long-legged bird is related to herons and flamingos? (5) |
| GENET | Large nets trapping the beast (5) |
| IDLER | One doctor trapping the French shirker (5) |
