| MYNAS | Loud-calling variety of starling in Asia and Australia (5) |
| MURMURATION | Collective noun for a flock of typically thousands of starlings in preroost flight, displaying a for |
| JODIEFOSTER | Clarice Starling in the 1991 movie, The Silence of the Lambs (5,6) |
| CLARICE | First name of Agent Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (7) |
| FOSTER | Clarice Starling in The Silence Of The Lambs, Jodie - - -, pictured right (6) |
| PSALM | Song of starling starting in tree (5) |
| SKINK | Any short-limbed lizard of the family Scincidae, found in Africa, Asia and Australia (5) |
| MYNAH | - - - - - bird, type of starling |
| ZIONS | Mount in Asia and National Park in Utah. |
| RHINO | In Asia and Africa, one may charge intruders money (5) |
| NATIONALISM | Ideology that was typical of the the periods of liberation in Europe in the 18th century and in Asia and Africa in the post-colonial 20th |
| WATTLING | This type of starling loses its head feathers in the breeding season and then regrows them, a trait that has drawn the interest of scientists researching baldness. |
| YANGTZE | Flowing through the Three Gorges and known in China as Chang JiAÂng, the longest river in Asia and thirdlongest in the world (7) |
| AFC | Governing body of football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania (Abbr.) |
| ANISOMELES | Small genus of herbs of tropical Asia and Australia with purplish cymose flowers (10) |
| PYTHON | Family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia and Australia (6) |
| TASMANIA | Time served by man in Asia and part of Australia (8) |
| MYNA | Talkative kind of starling |
| ARROW | CW series set in Starling City |
| LANTANA | Tropical shrub that's an invasive weed outside its normal habitat in Africa and throughout southern Asia and Australia |
