| PLUMAGE | Peacocks are best known for their amazing eye-spotted tail feathers or ___ |
| PEACOCK | Large bird with blue and green spotted tail feathers (7) |
| EYESPOT | Type of marking on a peacock's tail feather or on the wing of a butterfly such as gatekeeper, meadow brown, speckled wood or cabbage white (7) |
| OCULIST | ICU lost amazing eye specialist (7) |
| AFIG | "And if you don't care a feather or ___..." |
| TAIL | Peacocks are big, colourful pheasants known for their long lustrous ___ feathers |
| DALMATIAN | Animal spotted barking at animal with spotted tail (9) |
| PYEDOG | In river, you'd spotted tail of drowning animal |
| FLYING | Peacocks are one of the largest ___ birds |
| VAINLY | How peacocks are said to strut |
| TRAIN | Cascade of silk or satin at the back of a wedding gown; or, a peacock's flowing eye-spotted feathers (5) |
| ARGUS | Io's guardian, whose 100 eyes were transferred to a peacock's tail and name was given to several pheasants and various eye-spotted butterflies; or, any vigilant watcher/observer (5) |
| PEACOCKS | Male fowls whose ostentatious courtly swishing of their eye-spotted fans/trains inspired the pavane; or, vainglorious strutting individuals (8) |
| PAVONINE | Word meaning "peacock-like", as in the colours, iridescence or showiness of its plumage or eye-spotted train (8) |
| HARUM | British rock band best known for their hit single A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Procul ... |
| PANZERS | German tanks best known for their role in WWII |
| MENATWORK | Australian rock band best known for their 1981 worldwide hit Down Under (3,2,4) |
| SEMISONIC | Alternative rock band from Minneapolis best known for their singles Secret Smile and Closing Time |
| SWINGOUTSISTER | British pop group best known for their 1987 worldwide hit Breakout |
| SIMPLEMINDS | Scottish rock band best known for their single Don't You (Forget About Me) (6, 5) |
