| PEEWIT | Retreating Hole contained lapwing tiny (6) |
| INBOARD | Current reportedly made hole contained by ship (7) |
| PEEWEE | From Scots for "little, tiny", word for a small child, mini toy marble or other diminutive person/thing; or, one of the onomatopoeic epithets of a lapwing, magpie lark or tyrant flycatcher (6) |
| PEELER | Another name for a lapwing (6) |
| PLOVER | Lapwing, for example (6) |
| WADING | - bird; general name for a curlew, snipe, sandpiper, oystercatcher, turnstone or plover/lapwing (6) |
| DECEIT | Collective term for lapwings is trickery! (6) |
| CRESTS | Feather plumes on the heads of lapwings, hoopoes and peafowls; regions of horses where manes grow; or, the points of waves opposite troughs (6) |
| ARABLE | From the Latin meaning "to plough", type of farmland suitable for growing crops, sometimes used as the nesting habitat of lapwings, grey partridges and other birds (6) |
| DESERT | Word, from "abandoned place, lay waste", for an act of forsaking; a barren arid land; or, a flock of lapwings (6) |
| PEWITS | Lapwings |
| GREENPLOVER | The northern lapwing (5,6) |
| GREYPLOVER | Wading bird related to the lapwing (4,6) |
| PEWIT | Lapwing gull |
| OVERLAY | Blanket? No place for lapwing to produce eggs |
| WEEP | Keen lapwing drops it, heading west |
| AWN | Lapwing regularly dropped bristly growth on grass |
| BRAG | Black tails of woodpecker, skua, lapwing and crow |
| TEWIT | Lapwing is bird holding wings of white up (5) |
| PLUNDER | LAPWING |
