| BRACE | Pair of pheasants |
| EMBRACED | Hugged English managing director bagging a pair of pheasants? (8) |
| EMBRACE | Welcome Boz back with pair of pheasants? (7) |
| BRACES | From "two arms", word for orthodontic retainers, pairs of pheasants, suspenders for trousers, the marks { and } or other clasping, supporting or couples of things (6) |
| PAIR | A brace of pheasants, couple of lovers, distich of lines, duo of rowers, duet of singers, dyad of gloves, flight of stairs, yoke of oxen or other two of a kind or twinset of equal things (4) |
| HEADS | Obverse of a coin; or, one of the words for groups of pheasants (5) |
| BOUQUET | Word describing a group of pheasants when flushed; the characteristic aroma of wine or perfume; or, a floral arrangement, bigger than a posy (7) |
| NIDE | Group of pheasants on the ground as opposed to a bouquet when flushed or a brace as a pair (4) |
| OPENEYED | Aware of work to finish trapping flock of pheasants |
| NYES | One of the words for flocks or "bouquets" of pheasants (4) |
| NYE | One of the words for a brood, flock or nest of pheasants (3) |
| BALLGAMES | Pluck outside of pheasants, say, or other kinds of sport (4,5) |
| HEAD | Word for a capitulum of flowers; an effigy on a coin; one's "upper storey"-encasing caput; a cabbage or lettuce, dense and round like said anterior bonce; a schoolmaster/mistress; a nide of pheasants; |
| GAMEKEEPER | Breeder of pheasants, etc |
| NIDES | Broods or nests of pheasants (5) |
| ENE | A brood of pheasants (3) |
| TWO | Number of pheasants in a 'brace' (3) |
| DEADEYE | Marksman has slain a lot of pheasants (7) |
| EYEBALL | Observe brood of pheasants gathering for dance (7) |
| CUPTIE | Lovely trapping first of pheasants -- game (3,3) |
