| BOBWHITE | Quail and duck, with cuckoo last of three (8) |
| CRINGE | Fawn, quail and duck (6) |
| PECCADILLO | Stuffing hen, say, and duck with herb, a little mistake |
| NUTCASE | Leading character in Austen novel with cuckoo (7) |
| EMERITUS | Worth retained by last of three Indy setters honourably discharged (8) |
| LARGESSE | Big ship, last of three - 'The Bounty' perhaps? (8) |
| ATHLETIC | Sporting Lisbon's header ___ last of three in fantastic first-half hat-trick, I see (8) |
| EGGS | With shells often painted and hung on boughs of blossom or pussy willow as a decoration at Easter, products laid by chickens, ducks, quails and other hens (4) |
| HARLEQUIN | Breed of dog making hen, quail and rook scatter (9) |
| SHEPHERDSPIES | Cooked last of three dishes perhaps lacking third of meat? (9,4) |
| STARTBACK | Quail and set out for home (5,4) |
| WINCE | Quail and cold wine is brought out |
| BIRDSOFAFEATHER | Those who flock together couch between quail and quill (5,2,1,7) |
| SENDMENOFLOWERS | 1964 romantic comedy, the last of three films starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day |
| TOE | Last of three X's |
| HIPS | Last of three classic measurements |
| TOTE | Bear child, last of three (4) |
| CELEBS | Names last of three Europeans leaving Pacific island earlier (6) |
| BURDENSOME | Trying numbers, do set out last of three (10) |
| ABELE | The Third Man, last of three by tree (5) |
