| HEIGHTEN | Raise number eaten by chicken |
| LIONS | Animals ground up, unknown number eaten (5) |
| ROUNDUP | How to raise numbers for herding of cattle (5-2) |
| CHINOOKS | American Indians at home surrounded by chickens (8) |
| BACON | Man killed by chicken, some say, and gammon |
| TUNA | Fish sold by Chicken of the Sea |
| AFRAID | Scared out of one's wits by chicken (6) |
| SCAR | Permanent mark that can be caused by chicken pox |
| JERK | Idiot sometimes seen being followed by chicken? |
| HAPPEN | Result when computer program grasped by chicken (6) |
| FLYNN | Pace set by chicken, shrewd names for house leader (7,5) |
| STEPHEN | Pace set by chicken, shrewd names for house leader (7,5) |
| EGGPLANTS | You might find them tasty but they'd be apt to be frowned on by chicken-farmers! (9) |
| EGGS | They're laid by chickens, cobras, and platypuses |
| GRIT | Courage (needed by chickens?) (4) |
| INCHWORM | Sat upon by a blue caterpillar in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a fruiting body with pieces eaten by Alice in order to shrink or grow (8) |
| THISTLES | Depicted on some textiles designed by William Morris and with seeds eaten by goldfinches, prickly plants used as the botanical symbols of Scotland (8) |
| REGIMENT | A large number of staff eaten by big cat from the east (8) |
| HAZELNUT | Whether eaten by a dormouse, squirrel or woodpecker in the wild or by a human in chocolate spread or a gold foil-wrapped Ferrero praline ball, it is a cob, filbert or noisette (8) |
| PHEASANT | Game-bird, hot, eaten by rustic (8) |
