| BRACE | Pair of game birds; curly bracket; or, a traditional hand-operated drill (5) |
| BURR | Small hand operated drill (4) |
| LEFT | Traditional hand for a wedding band |
| BRACES | Suspenders with which to support one's trousers; pairs of partridges or other game birds; "curly" punctuation marks; or, accolades in musical notation (6) |
| OPENBRACE | Another name for a curly bracket |
| SET | Math grouping seen in curly brackets |
| FLUSH | A rapid flight, spring up or start of game birds; a suffusion of crimson colour in the cheeks; a sudden flow of water; a fresh growth of foliage, flowers or fruit; or, a feeling of excitement (5) |
| SCULL | Each of a pair of oars used to propel a racing shell of the same name; or, a traditional Scottish basket for fish or potatoes (5) |
| DUCKS | A pair of game birds? (5) |
| BROWN | A close-flying flock of game birds; or, the colour of "Betty" teapots, cappuccino, LBBs, skippers, smoky quartz or umber (5) |
| ANCON | Projecting bracket or console beneath a cornice, often consisting of two volutes (5) |
| SALMI | A ragout, especially of game birds (5) |
| ONION | Vegetable with concentric layers, often pickled, studded with cloves or used to make bhajis or a traditional French soup (5) |
| ROUGE | French word for red; or, a traditional safflower-based blusher (5) |
| ORIEL | A bay window, especially one supported by one or more brackets or corbels |
| APPLE | Pomaceous fruit related to quince and pear, baked in charlotte, cobbler, tarte tatin or a traditional Dorset cake (5) |
| COVEY | Brood of game birds (5) |
| MOOLI | What French hand-operated rotational grater purees food? (5) |
| RIDGE | Crest of game bird, part shed (5) |
| SNIPE | Type of game bird (5) |
