| SCAMEL | Norfolk dialect, from the long-debated word for a gull, limpet, sea mew or wader in Shakespeare's The Tempest, for a bar-tailed godwit (6) |
| GULL | Dialect for an unfledged bird or a gosling; a mew; or, a dupe or fool (4) |
| COSSET | Dialect, from the Irish for "banquet, feast", meaning chatter amiably, coddle, pamper or spoil rotten; otherwise, to live, dine out or be entertained at another's expense (6) |
| BOOT | Wellington or wader |
| MEADOWS | Holding a party in mews or open country (7) |
| CAGE | Take time to follow sound of the sea mew (4) |
| CATFISH | Swimmer to give a sea-mew? (7) |
| MARDLE | Norfolk dialect for gossip or pond (6) |
| BROADSWORD | Piece of Norfolk dialect for old weapon |
| SKUA | Slender stick, we're told, for a gull (4) |
| BUOY | Perch for a gull, perhaps |
| ALOOF | It's chilly for a gull rising up |
| KITE | Accipitrine glede with a distinctive whistle or mew; a toy that floats in the air or the blue; or, a rapturous person, preying on me or you (4) |
| INFRARED | Portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that extends from the long wavelength, or red, end of the visible-light range to the microwave range. |
| RENEGADE | Styx song that goes "...I'm in fear for my life from the long arm of the law." |
| ANGORA | Yarn or fabric made from the long hair of a species of goat or rabbit (6) |
| ARM | Styx "In fear for my life from the long ___ of the law" |
| PRIDESPURGE | The 1648 expulsion from the Long Parliament of members hostile to the New Model Army (6,5) |
| NOIL | A short fiber of cotton, wool, etc., separated from the long fibers in combing. |
| STING | What might one expect from the long con in this 1973 Oscar winner? (5) |
