| MUGSGAME | Pots grouse and pheasant, say, a futile occupation (4,4) |
| GAMEBIRDS | Grouse and pheasants |
| GAMEBIRD | Pheasant, say, shot in Ambridge |
| MINDGAME | Sage and pheasant - that's bound to mess with your head (4,4) |
| SPRINGER | Spaniel so bouncy it makes teal and pheasants take flight, yet coiled like a loaded helix when asleep at night (8) |
| CORNBEEF | Wow, new grouse and preserved food (4-4) |
| BOARDGAME | Go for one day keeping apart swine and pheasant, say (5,4) |
| EDAMAME | Soy beans with cheese and pheasant, say - no good! (7) |
| VILLAINY | It's bad in a futile year for crime (8) |
| GAMEKEEPER | A person employed to protect and manage pheasants, partridges, hares, deer, grouse and other wildlife on country farms and estates (10) |
| SKILLET | Cooking pot in which to place pheasant, say (7) |
| GAMESETANDMATCH | "Duck and Pheasant" team with alliance make winning declaration (4,3,3,5) |
| MERSEA | - - - Island, Essex club formed in the Dog and Pheasant pub in 1989 (6) |
| HEATHER | Also called ling and related to blueberries and rhododendrons, the primary food of the red grouse and one of the national flowers of Scotland (7) |
| WHINE | Grouse, and what's drunk with it, you might say? |
| QUAIL | Bird related to the pheasant, grouse and partridge (5) |
| FEASTED | Had lobster and pheasant |
| THOMAS | Poet and creator of the fictional fishing village "Llareggub", who, in Fern Hill, reflects on his childhood visits to his aunt's farm in Wales, including its apple boughs, foxes, nightjars, owls and p |
| BALLGAMES | Pluck outside of pheasants, say, or other kinds of sport (4,5) |
| BELLYACHED | Had grouse - and there was indigestion! |
