| LARKS | Songbirds known collectively as an exaltation (5) |
| LARK | Forming a flock known as an exaltation and used to describe an earlyriser, a bird immortalised in an orchestral work by Ralph Vaughan Williams (4) |
| SHRIKES | Songbirds known for impaling their prey |
| RAVEN | Bird known collectively as an unkindness (5) |
| CANARY | Yellow finch known collectively as an aria or an opera and formerly employed as a colliery gas detector; a Madeira-like wine; or, an informal word for a jailbird or a soprano (6) |
| AVOCET | Bird known collectively as an orchestra whose pied species is used as an emblem of the RSPB (6) |
| BEAR | An animal such as the seal-eating heavy white "polar" species of Arctic regions, which is fancifully known collectively as an aurora or a celebration (4) |
| ANTS | Proverbial for industriousness and capable of carrying around 5,000 times their own body weight, insects known collectively as an army (4) |
| MERLIN | Known collectively as an illusion and sometimes laying its eggs in an old crow's nest, a falcon or "pigeon hawk" of heather moorland that is the UK's smallest bird of prey (6) |
| VOTERS | Body of people known collectively as an electorate or constituency (6) |
| HOSANNA | Take end from communion wafer - on reflection, an exaltation! (7) |
| BIRDS | Exaltation perhaps from offers that are about right (5) |
| GLORY | Exaltation, praise or honour (5) |
| HEDGEHOG | Known collectively as an array or a prickle, a mammal typically sleeping in a hibernaculum over the |
| HEDGEHOGS | Known collectively as an array or a prickle, animals rescued by Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital (9) |
| BISHOP | Prelate known collectively as an episcopacy; mitre-topped chess piece; or, a type of mulled wine (6) |
| BISHOPS | Prelates known collectively as an episcopacy; or, chesspieces associated with the development or strategy of fianchettoing (7) |
| ANTBEAR | Known collectively as an armoury, the termite-feeding nocturnal aardvark or "earth pig" (7) |
| GNU | "Wild beast" whose pluralised name is homophonous with "news", hence known collectively as an implausibility, among other things (3) |
| BLISS | Exaltation |
