| MARSHTIT | Small, mainly brown, woodland bird - makes him start (5,3) |
| ONWITHTHEMOTLEY | They won't let him start to organise fancy dress as clown |
| LINNET | A mainly brown and grey finch with a reddish breast and forehead (6) |
| WHEATEAR | Small mainly ground-dwelling bird that shows a white rump in flight |
| COMMA | An orange-brown, woodland butterfly with ragged-edged wings (5) |
| POLECAT | Dark brown woodland mammal related to, but larger than, the weasel (7) |
| ANCHOVY | Small mainly Mediterranean fish of the herring family with a rich flavour usually eaten pickled (7) |
| NUTHATCH | Small woodpecker-like woodland bird with blue-grey, chestnut and buff plumage, often spotted scuttling head-first down a tree trunk (8) |
| GREATTIT | Green and yellow woodland bird with a black head (5,3) |
| BOHEMIAN | ___ waxwing, flocking woodland bird of the northern Palearctic (8) |
| FIFTYTWO | Roald Amundsen finished his 1911 South Pole expedition with 11 dogs. How many did he start with? (5-3) |
| SNOWYOWL | Bird makes painful cry following bad weather (5,3) |
| REEFKNOT | After struggling free, bird makes secure place in the sails (4,4) |
| REDSHANK | Leggy bird makes socialist swing to the right |
| CORNICHE | Huge bird makes ascent, precise about height for cliff route |
| CORSICAN | Legendary bird makes a comeback for flick about ego of French woman (8) |
| BOTSWANA | From within rocky boat elegant bird makes land (8) |
| CHATSHOW | Exhibition of birds makes TV entertainment |
| CREDITOR | Glory and gold makes him lend money (8) |
| DISPERSE | Peers around at Sid and makes him scatter (8) |
