| SNOWYOWL | Sharing half of its name with Tintin's terrier of white, an Arctic "Bubo" or "Hedwig", hunting with quiescent flight by day or night (5,3) |
| BLACKTIE | Descriptor of some elegant attire formed by the opposite of "white" + an accessory worn around the neck: 2 wds. |
| OWL | Bubo or tyto |
| OILCOLOUR | Winsor blue, burnt sienna, yellow ochre, titanium white ... an artist's pigment often mixed with linseed extract (3,6) |
| CONE | Cold dessert that is made with syrup and shares part of its name with 14a |
| VOLKSWAGENDASHER | 1970s auto that shares part of its name with one of Santa's reindeer |
| STONECURLEW | Bird of dry open ground that shares part of its name with a long-billed wader (5,6) |
| FALCONRY | Described in The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry, A Kestrel for a Knave and H is for Hawk, sport or practice of training or hunting with birds of prey (8) |
| CAPE | ___ Codder cocktail that shares part of its name with a popular Massachusetts tourist attraction |
| ISLAND | Long ___ Iced Tea cocktail that shares part of its name with a New York metropolitan region |
| HAWAII | Blue ___ tropical cocktail that shares part of its name with The Aloha State |
| SINGAPORE | ___ Sling cocktail that shares part of its name with a city-state in Southeast Asia |
| IRAN | Country that shares the first three letters of its name with a neighboring country |
| CAESAR | Julius ---, play that shares part of its name with box B salad (6) |
| SLOTHBEAR | Asian ursine mammal that shares part of its name with a deadly sin |
| CHICAGO | ___ Fizz cocktail that shares part of its name with The Windy City |
| RAINFOREST | Type of biome covering around six per cent of Earth's land surface and containing half of its plant/animal species (10) |
| PORT | Wine whose name is the first half of its country of origin |
| BANGUI | Capital of the Central African Republic its river is an anagram of its name! (6) |
| LOFTY | Esteemed Line of Duty loses half of its characters (5) |
