| ARNO | River essential to barn owls (4) |
| NILE | River essential for Egyptian, I learn |
| NEAT | Cattle graze close to barn at first |
| ELLS | Main house-to-barn connections |
| VOLE | Small rodent - barn owl prey (4) |
| BOWL | Head of barn owl on crockery (4) |
| HOOT | Barn owl's noise |
| URBAN | Turn to barn conversion in the town (5) |
| HEART | Barn owls are recognisable by their ___ shaped faces |
| PFENNIG | Mark part of hog lying around bog, close to barn? (7) |
| TWILIGHT | Time around dawn or dusk when crepuscular animals, birds and insects, including barn owls, foxes, hawk moths, nightjars, pipistrelles and tawnies, are most active (8) |
| RODENTS | Barn owl's prey |
| BONARLAW | A barn owl agitated former PM (5,3) |
| NOW | Barn- owl hiding at present (3) |
| BROTHERINLAW | Relative of their barn owl is ousted (7-2-3) |
| SCREECH | Cry of male barn owl (7) |
| MADGE | Regional dialect or old English name for a barn owl or a magpie (5) |
| FAMILY | There are 2 types of the owl ___, the Barn Owl has a heart-shaped face and is part of the Tytonidae family, while all other owl species are part of the Strigidae family |
| INDICATOR | A blinker; or, a species, such as the Adonis blue, barn owl, English bluebell, oakmoss or turtledove, whose absence, abundance or presence reflects a specific environmental condition in a habitat (9) |
| BARN | Typically home to livestock, horses and owls, a farm building sometimes converted and resided in by humans (4) |
