| NURSE | Medical professional who takes the Nightingale Pledge |
| PROPOSER | Problem faced by professional who takes the knee |
| RNS | Nightingale Pledge takers: Abbr. |
| NIGHTOWLNURSE | Medical professional who prefers the late shift? |
| EMT | Medical professional who cares for people en route to the ER: Abbr. |
| MIDWIFE | Medical professional who delivers babies (7) |
| HOMENURSE | Medical professional who makes house calls |
| PLASTICSURGEONS | Medical professionals who undertake cosmetic procedures for their patients (7,8) |
| FINCH | Poet who held the title Countess of Winchilsea and wrote A Letter to Daphnis, A Nocturnal Reverie, To the Nightingale and The Owl Describing her Young Ones (5) |
| IGOR | Russian-born US composer of works including the operas The Nightingale (1914) and The Rake's Progress (1951) (4,10) |
| STRAVINSKI | Russian-born US composer of works including the operas The Nightingale (1914) and The Rake's Progress (1951) (4,10) |
| TASMANIA | The Nightingale and The Hunter were filmed in this Australian state (8) |
| JIG | The note of the nightingale; a prison or jail; a glass, tankard or Toby of beer; an instrument forming part of a skiffle band; or, a spouted vessel, such as a boat, ewer or pitcher (3) |
| LEROSSIGNOL | French name of Igor Stravinsky's opera 'The Nightingale' (2,9) |
| PHILOMEL | The nightingale personified (8) |
| MIGRANT | Like the nightingale ovenwintering in Africa (7) |
| ROBIN | Insectivorous territorial songbird related to the nightingale (5) |
| PHILOMELA | The nightingale; maerens ____ sub umbra amissos queritur fetus Geo. 4.511-2 |
| CHAT | Name of a family of Old World songbirds that includes the nightingale (4) |
| SWEENEY | "___ Among the Nightingales" |
