| YAFFLE | Regional dialect for a green woodpecker (6) |
| URCHIN | Regional dialect for a hedgehog; or, the short name for a spiny marine echinoderm (6) |
| SPRITE | From "breath", word for an elf, sylph or water fairy, thus a dainty or impish person; otherwise, a blue riverdamsel; a flash of red lightning; a green woodpecker; or, a spayed ferret (6) |
| CREEL | Angler's wicker basket for holding fish or trapping lobsters; or, regional dialect for a pulley airer such as a Sheila Maid (5) |
| WICK | Central cord in a candle; or, regional dialect for a dairy farm (4) |
| LEAT | Regional dialect for a millstream or millrace (4) |
| PATOIS | Unwritten regional dialect of a language (6) |
| ACCENT | Stress it's a regional dialect (6) |
| RAFFLE | Draw green woodpecker striking head next to river (6) |
| CHROMA | ___ key, technical term for a green-screen effect |
| NORMAN | Old Royal Marine probing grandma's regional dialect |
| DOLL | Effigy of a human made by a miniaturist; or, regional dialect for the smallest or youngest piglet in a litter (4) |
| AWL | An instrument with a sharp point likened to the hole-boring beak of a green woodpecker (3) |
| IDIOMS | Regional dialects |
| EDGES | Regional dialect for limestone escarpments; another word for borders; or, cutting parts of knives (5) |
| NEEPS | Regional dialect for turnips (5) |
| YOKEL | From dialectal English for "green woodpecker, yellowhammer", a towny term for a bumpkin, clodhopper, country cousin, hayseed or other supposedly unsophisticated rustic (5) |
| PIE | A quantity of mincemeat, plum, pork or other food/fruit baked under a crust of pastry; or, depicted in a winterscape by Monet, a chattering black-and-white green-tinged bird whose short name in questi |
| AWLBIRD | Regional term for the green woodpecker (7) |
| MADGE | Regional dialect or old English name for a barn owl or a magpie (5) |
