| SHOREBIRD | Snipe or curlew |
| BIRD | A feathered vertebrate, such as the onomatopoeically named chachalaca, chickadee, chat, chiffchaff, corncrake, cuckoo or curlew; or, a shuttlecock (4) |
| LARK | A flock of snipe or wagtails; or, a farm where hound puppies are trained (4) |
| WISP | Flock of snipe; or, a woven bundle of hay or straw forming part of a traditional equine grooming kit (4) |
| WISPS | Flocks of snipe; or, hand-plaited bundles of hay or straw used as part of a horse's traditional grooming kit (5) |
| PICCOLOS | From Italian for "little", a word for small flutes aka ottavinos; organ stops of similar tone; ponies, quarter bottles, snipes or splits of champagne; or, in Sweden, bellboys or bellhops (8) |
| WADER | Snipe or heron, eg (5) |
| CHINESEWHISPERS | Reformed characters in Shires chew snipe, or other game |
| WADING | - bird; general name for a curlew, snipe, sandpiper, oystercatcher, turnstone or plover/lapwing (6) |
| SNIPE | Curlew or sandpiper |
| SANDPIPER | Name of a family of birds that includes the curlew and snipe (9) |
| CATERWAUL | Scream at a curlew, flying off (9) |
| WHIMBREL | Small curlew |
| WIMBREL | Curlew with dislocated limb almost ruddy inside |
| LEWIS | Detective saw curlew I saw inside (5) |
| SNIPES | Curlew cousins |
| ESKIMO | ___ curlew, a wader, now feared extinct (6) |
| SLENDER | ___-billed curlew, severely endangered wader (7) |
| WONGA | Brass curlew on garden fencing (5) |
| IBIS | Curlew-like bird (4) |
