| MALLARDS | Large ducks, the males of which have a green head and yellow bill (8) |
| SHELDUCK | British waterfowl species with a green head and red bill |
| WHOOPER | --- swan, aquatic bird with a noisy cry and a black and yellow bill (7) |
| ASHBY | Pelargonium '___' the deep-pink blooms of which have a crimson centre (5) |
| BORAGE | Plant with star-shaped blue flowers, the young leaves of which have a cucumber-like flavour (6) |
| MOORHEN | Dark-plumaged waterbird with a red-and-yellow bill (7) |
| YELLOWHAMMER | Eurasian bunting whose male has a bright yellow head and yellow underparts |
| EIDERS | Mussel-eating sea birds known as cuddy ducks; the heaviest and fastestflying of the UK's ducks (6) |
| SHAG | It's a bird, mum, with a green head (4) |
| BIN | Many of us have a green (or brown) one for recycling garden waste (3) |
| THUMB | Folk hero Tom was no bigger than his father's - gardeners have a green one |
| BARN | Described in Stephen Duck's The Thresher's Labour, farm building traditionally with a threshing floor, winnowing doors, flail and horse gin for processing grain (4) |
| STOOPS | Ducks the head (6) |
| PEACOCKS | Sacred to the Greek goddess Hera, the males of the national birds of India (8) |
| STAGBEETLE | Insect of the family Lucanidae, the males of which have large branched mandibles |
| BULLFINCHES | Small European birds, the males of which have bright red throats and breasts and black crowns (11) |
| FIDDLERCRAB | Type of crustacean, the males of which have one claw much bigger than the other (7,4) |
| GOSHAWKS | Cor blimey — large ducks and birds of prey |
| ROOSTERS | Name the males of domestic fowls (8) |
| FIDDLERCRABS | Burrowing crustaceans, the males of which have one very large anterior claw (7,5) |
