| BULLFINCH | Known in Welsh as coch y berllan (red of the orchard), bird forming in a flock described as a bellowing (9) |
| BEETLE | Coch-y-bondhu is one of these (6) |
| ANGLESEY | Island off the north-west coast of Wales and Snowdonia, known in Welsh as Ynys Mon (8) |
| LEEKS | Scallion-like vegetables, known in Welsh as "cennin", nicknamed "poor man's asparagus" in France (5) |
| NEWPORT | City known in Welsh as Casnewydd (7) |
| STARLING | With iridescent plumage, a bird forming flocks or murmurations in the winter (8) |
| GOOSE | Bird forming part of a gaggle |
| OPAL | Siliceous gem with kaleidoscopic colours said by Pliny to encompass the blue of sapphire, the green of emerald, the purple of amethyst, the red of ruby and the yellow of topaz (4) |
| PONCEAU | French word for the scarlet red of the corn poppy, hence a dye of vivid rouge colour, like said coquelicot (7) |
| NOSTALGIA | Known to the Welsh as "hiraeth", a word formerly for homesickness, later a longing for the past |
| BOOM | A bellow or blare of a bittern or bass drum; a bonanza of babies, boodle or bunce; a buoyant barrier; or, a beam (4) |
| SEVERN | British river known to the ancient Romans as Sabrina and in Welsh as Hafren (6) |
| VIOLET | Colour at the opposite end to red of the spectrum (6) |
| STRATUS | Low-altitude cloud forming in a blanket of grey or white that is common on an overcast day (7) |
| TREACLE | Sticky solution to a clue, half-hidden in part of the orchard (7) |
| SONGS | General word for the vocalisations of thrushes, wrens, robins, finches and other birds forming a dawn chorus (5) |
| ORGAN | Large complex musical keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by means of a number of pipes arranged in sets or stops, supplied with air from a bellows |
| ELIO | Cincinnati Red of the early 1960s ___ Chacon |
| AUERBACH | Ex-coach Red of the Celtics |
| RYDER | Red of the comics |
