| OPENSEASON | It's on the hunter's calendar |
| ORION | Alternatively one takes on The Hunter (5) |
| SNOW | The Hunters in the -; winter scene in a series of five extant paintings depicting the months/seasons including The Gloomy Day and The Hay Harvest by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (4) |
| ROLLERBLINDS | They block the world out for those working on the locks for the hunters (6,6) |
| TIMPANI | They represent the hunters in "Peter and the Wolf" |
| STAN | One of the hunters in "The Deer Hunter" |
| RIGEL | Looked upon by the Witch Head Nebula, the bright blue supergiant in Orion the Hunter's "foot" (5) |
| SEARCHES | She cares poorly for the hunters (8) |
| HUN | Was he among the hunters of history? |
| WATCHES | Guards the hunters, perhaps (7) |
| TRACKSUIT | What the hunters wore? (5,4) |
| SHOOTINGPARTY | Hit stag or pony, ruining the hunters' gathering (8,5) |
| TRAIL | Or that line needs revising to show where the hunters may be found (2,3,5) |
| ONTHE | Or that line needs revising to show where the hunters may be found (2,3,5) |
| OCT | Mo. when the hunter's moon emerges |
| ORIONSBELT | What keeps the Hunter's pants up |
| TRAPPINGS | The hunter's paraphernalia? (9) |
| VIEWHALLOO | Regard greeting with love is the hunter's cry (4,6) |
| LEPUS | Latin designation of the hare from which the constellation bordered by Orion the Hunter, Columba the Dove and Eridanus the River derived its name (5) |
| HATE | The tattoo on Robert Mitchum's left hand in The Night of the Hunter. |
