| SONGBIRDS | Nightingales and wrens |
| JAMIE | - Dornan, star of TV series Death and Nightingales and film Fifty Shades of Grey (5) |
| ROBINS | Redbreasts related to nightingales and often heard singing at dusk (6) |
| SONGSTERS | Esteemed for their range of trills, warbles, whistles and other melodious vocalisations, the "Oscines" or dawn choristers including the blackbirds, chiffchaffs, great tits, nightingales, robins, thrus |
| BIRDS | Robins and wrens |
| HERD | Collective noun for cattle, elephants, fairies, sea horses and wrens (4) |
| BIRDBATH | Miniature pool used by avian wildlife including blue tits, chaffinches, robins and wrens (8) |
| WARMONGER | Hawk and wren Margo trained |
| 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) |
| FORMBY | Stage name of the "Wigan Nightingale" and his son, also a singer and comedian |
| THRUSH | Nightingale and robin's cousin mavis, known collectively as a hermitage or a mutation, latterly due to the medieval belief that said throstle-cock shed and regrew new legs (6) |
| ZOE | Sister of Hammie and Wren in the comic strip 'Baby Blues' |
| NONCEWORD | Flying condor and wren lose rook - that's frabjous, say! |
| AVES | Class of vertebrates that includes the dawn chorus songsters blackbird, mistle thrush, robin and wren (4) |
| TITLARK | Another name for the streaky brown meadow pipit in the order Aves with fellow feathered vertebrates including robin, swan, turkey, turtledove and wren (7) |
| KEATS | English Romantic poet whose works include La Belle Dame sans Merci, Ode to a Nightingale and On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (5) |
| ROBIN | Related to blackbird, nightingale and thrush, the UK's favourite bird (5) |
| POEMS | Ode To A Nightingale and I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud are what type of literary works? (5) |
| CHAT | Name of a family of Old World songbirds that includes the redstart, nightingale and wheatear (4) |
| TASMANIA | The Nightingale and The Hunter were filmed in this Australian state (8) |
