| DROVER | One moving a herd or flock |
| PECUS | A herd or flock: grex, armentum |
| CULL | To reduce the population of a herd or flock by selective slaughter (4) |
| DROVE | Herd or flock of animals moving together (5) |
| WREN | Known collectively as a herd or a chime and depicted on farthings, the "king of the birds" with a female married to a robin redbreast in an old poem (4) |
| CRASH | Noise made by cymbals; a herd or rhinoceroses; a coarse type of linen; or, a computer system seizure (5) |
| ZEAL | Sharing its root with "jealousy", a word for intense or fanatical ardour; or, a herd or "dazzle" of zebra (4) |
| PENNER | Word for a writer or composer; a case for carrying their nibs, quills or stylographs; or, one who corrals, herds or shepherds cattle, pigs, sheep or other livestock into folds, stalls or sties (6) |
| WISP | A flight or flock of snipe; a bundle of hay or straw for shining a horse's coat; or, a little broom (4) |
| PEN | A fold, stall or sty; the drift, drove or flock of farm stock in any such an enclosure; "feather", a quill honed and split with a knife to form a nib; instrument modelled on this, such as a stylograph |
| DROVES | What are herds, or flocks (6) |
| COVEY | A brood, hatch or flock of grouse, partridges, quail or other game birds; or, a small party or set of people (5) |
| MUSTER | An assembly of troops for duties or inspection; a gathering; or, a company or flock of peacocks (6) |
| PLUMP | Word meaning well-rounded or chubby; or, dialect for a cluster, knot or flock of geese, spearmen or trees (5) |
| SHEEPDOG | Border collie, German shepherd or other canine trained to herd or guard flocks; or, a chaperon (8) |
| CRECHE | French word for a nursery also used to describe a colony or flock of flamingo or penguin chicks (6) |
| CLIP | Season's yield of wool shorn from a sheep or flock; hair slide; film extract; or, a newspaper cutting (4) |
| BEVY | A word that collectively refers to a company or flock of ladies, larks, quails, roes or swans (4) |
| WOOL | Word for the lanate fleece or shearling of a sheep; or, thick hair resembling said coat or flock (4) |
| TEND | Look after, as a fire, bar or flock |
