| GALAH | Small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and wings and a pink body; Kakatoe or Eolophus roseicapilla (5) |
| GRYPHON | Mythical creature with an eagle's head and wings and a lion's body |
| BARN | ____ owl, one with a heart-shaped white face, buff back and wings and white underparts (4) |
| COCKATOO | Bird such as the sulphur-crested ..., Kakatoe galerita (8) |
| GOSHAWK | The northern ..., Accipiter gentilis, is a large bird with a bluish grey back and wings (7) |
| WHEATEAR | Small passerine bird with a pale grey back and black wings and tail (8) |
| COALTIT | Small passerine bird of Eurasia and Africa with a grey body and blackand-white head; Parus ater (4,3) |
| REDCODLING | Deep-sea fish of Australia and New Zealand also called a hoka with a reddish-pink body (3,7) |
| GRIFFIN | A mythical creature with an eagle's head and wings and lion's body |
| HELLOKITTY | Sanrio character who appears as a white cat with a large head, no mouth, and a pink bow by one ear |
| HERRINGGULL | Large bird with a light-grey back, white underparts and black-tipped wings |
| NUTHATCH | Small songbird with a blue-grey back, black eyestripe and long beak (8) |
| GREENSHANK | Wading bird with a dark grey back and white underparts (10) |
| ROOBARB | Animated children's TV series by Grange Calveley and Bob Godfrey about a dog and a pink cat called Custard (7) |
| KINGFISHER | Minnow-eating UK river bird with orange breast and striking metallic blue back and wings (10) |
| BASKINGSHARK | Very large marine creature with a grey body and conical snout (7,5) |
| VERNE | Jules ----- , French sci-fi pioneer and a pink and yellow hybrid tea rose (5) |
| PHALAROPE | Red-necked -; with a grey relative, a wading bird related to sandpipers and snipes, of which the female is notably more colourful than the male (9) |
| GADWALL | British duck with a grey body and distinctive black tail |
| GIBBONS | Author of novels including Nightingale Wood and A Pink Front Door whose satire Cold Comfort Farm was adapted into a television film (7) |
