| PEAFOWL | Often kept on the grounds of a country estate and known collectively as a muster, ostentation or a pride, the largest member of the pheasant family (7) |
| WIRESERVICE | Newspaper news source such as U.P.I. or A.P.: 2 wds. |
| PEA | Miniature cork ball in a whistle; old name for a bird in the genus Pavo known collectively as a muster; or, a podded vegetable whose original name was thought to be plural (3) |
| HAREM | Group of peafowls is a muster, ostentation, pride or ___ |
| LANHYDROCK | Last week, two of my friends, who live in Claydon and East Lulworth, moved in together, to an area near Bodmin known for its country estate and mansion (10) |
| PEACOCKS | Groups of these birds are known as an ostentation or muster (8) |
| GROUNDER | Kept on the ground |
| HOMEFARM | Part of a country estate set aside to provide produce for the owner (4,4) |
| YES | Certainly part of a country estate |
| PEARL | Formed inside an oyster and known collectively as a string or a rope as a necklace, one of the June birthstones (5) |
| PAVILION | Clubhouse for cricketers, umpires and spectators; summerhouse in the grounds of a park or large garden; or, a marqueelike tent at a country show or fair (8) |
| LOBSTER | Caught in a creel, trap or pot and known collectively as a risk, a marine crustacean in a class that includes crabs, crayfish and shrimp (7) |
| SPREAD | An expanse; a bedcover; butter, jam or pate applied to bread; a country estate; a double page; a feast; the size of a gem from above; or, wingspan (6) |
| PARK | Scottish explorer of the Niger; or, the grounds of a large country estate (4) |
| CAMPUS | Latin word meaning "field" used to describe either the grounds of a university or a novel such as David Lodge's Changing Places set on and around such (6) |
| OUTHOUSE | A building like a shed or barn built onto or in the grounds of a residence (8) |
| RABBIT | Burrowing buck, bun or cottontail synonymous with babble, blether or pork "talk" and known collectively as a bevy, bury, colony, flick or fluffle (6) |
| HARE | With leverets for young and known collectively as a husk, leap, trip and down, a swift-footed animal traditionally associated with March (4) |
| GATE | -house; building at the entrance of a Tudor palace or later a country estate that developed from that of a castle (4) |
| TROLLOPE | Author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire books and other novels including Castle Richmond, The Belton Estate and The Vicar of Bullhampton (8) |
