| WISHBONE | Sensible to capture pencil marking on part of avian skeleton |
| FEATHER | Part of avian finery? (7) |
| ENPASSANT | As sensible to capture pawn, about to go by the book, thus? |
| BLAH | Pencil marking circling a line rejected as nonsense |
| ERASER | Pencil marking remover |
| LEAD | Pencil's marking substance |
| BIRDFLU | Brother to build somehow, out of avian influenza (4,3) |
| SLUGPELLET | Gardening accessory to hit piece of avian waste |
| TWITCHER | Word, from the nervous feather-ruffled demeanour of avian enthusiast Howard Medhurst, for an often excitable or anxiously anticipative ornithologist, particularly keen to sight scarce birds in order t |
| SEAGULL | Ullages are reviewed because of avian scavengers (7) |
| HARPSEAL | A type of seal, also called a saddleback, it possesses a black harp-shaped or saddle-shaped marking on its back. They are found on or near ice floes from the Kara Sea of Russia west to the Gulf of St. |
| PANIC | Flap of avian's wings captured by photo |
| BEAKCRAMP | Result of avian overfeeding? |
| BILL | Feature of avian anatomy |
| QUILL | Bit of avian anatomy |
| ERASE | Remove the pencil markings |
| ERASES | Wipes away, as pencil markings |
| EYESPOT | Type of marking on a peacock's tail feather or on the wing of a butterfly such as gatekeeper, meadow brown, speckled wood or cabbage white (7) |
| STRIPE | "Go-faster" marking on a racing car; a band of colour on an angelfish, badger, bumblebee, tiger or zebra; or, a chevron on a military sleeve (6) |
| STOCKING | White marking on the lower part of a horse's leg (8) |
