| GOLDFINCH | Known collectively as a charm, a garden bird with a twittering call often spotted feeding on thistles or teasels (9) |
| SISKIN | With a distinctive forked tail, a garden bird resembling a cross between a greenfinch and a serin that is one of Britain's smallest finches (6) |
| BIRDBRAIN | Prison supporter at home, a twittering twit? |
| ROBIN | Territorial garden bird with a melancholic song, considered unlucky if it enters a person's home (5) |
| GREATTIT | Common garden bird with a distinctive two-note call (5,3) |
| SONGTHRUSH | Vocal garden bird with a buff spotted breast (4,6) |
| WISHBONE | A fowl's forked furcula or "merrythought", named for a custom of two people pulling it apart in blithesome divination as a good luck charm; a divided spar; or, a V-shaped element in a suspension syste |
| GREENFINCH | A small garden bird, with yellow patches on the wings and tail (10) |
| WAGTAIL | Pied -, garden bird with a bobbing walk (7) |
| BLUETIT | Common brightly coloured garden bird with a yellow breast |
| CHAFFINCH | Garden bird with a bluish top to the head (9) |
| STRIKEONE | Ump's call, often based on a sequence found in the answers to starred clues |
| NUTHATCH | Small woodpecker-like woodland bird with blue-grey, chestnut and buff plumage, often spotted scuttling head-first down a tree trunk (8) |
| KESTRELS | Falcons known as windhovers, often spotted hunting along main roads, verges or grass/farmlands (8) |
| STARLING | Garden bird with black and brown spotted plumage (8) |
| GREATTITS | Common garden birds with yellow and black underparts and a black and white head (5,4) |
| AMULET | Ornament worn as a charm against evil (6) |
| YODEL | Mountaineer's call, often with an echo effect (5) |
| ABRACADABRA | Mystical word used as a charm in incantations for healing originally, later in fun by conjurers or magicians when performing tricks (11) |
| HOOT | Bird call often heard at night |
