| SOLANGE | Singer of "Cranes in the Sky" |
| LOFTY | Blue mobile crane in the Bob The Builder series (5) |
| HECHE | Anne ___, Marion Crane in the 1998 remake of Psycho (5) |
| ANNEHECHE | Actress whose film roles include Marion Crane in the 1998 remake of Psycho (4,5) |
| UGANDA | What country has a grey crowned crane in the centre of its flag? (6) |
| SHATNER | Denny Crane in The Practice and Boston Legal, William ... (7) |
| MISCREANT | Tsotsi slaughters crane in the fog (9) |
| WES | Actor Bentley who played Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games |
| DEPP | Actor who plays Ichabod Crane in the 1999 film Sleepy Hollow (4) |
| KELSEY | ___ Grammer actor who played Frasier Crane in the '80s sitcom Cheers who also got his own spin-off Frasier |
| GRAMMER | Kelsey, U.S. actor who played psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane in the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier (7) |
| VERA | Miss Miles, actress who played Lila Crane in the film Psycho (4) |
| GERANIUM | From Greek for "crane", a plant with seedpods reminiscent of cranes' bills; a pelargonium; or, the pink, red or scarlet colour of many cultivated varieties of the aforesaid flower (8) |
| SCENARIO | Outline of cranes travelling to institute near Ring (8) |
| GRUES | Isle-aux-___ (Quebec's 'Island of Cranes') |
| PRANCES | Shows off customised model of cranes under pressure (7) |
| RESONANCE | Sonority of cranes one has upset (9) |
| ARSENIC | Anagram of cranes and me can be fatally poisonous! (7) |
| NACRE | The sort of crane needed to extract mother-of-pearl |
| REEDS | Wetland grasses forming beds inhabited by aptly named "sedges" of cranes, bitterns, egrets or herons (5) |
