| NAPOLEONII | Subject of Rostand's play "The Eaglet" |
| THEHALFOFIT | Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac is the basis for this 2020 film written and directed by Alice Wu (3,4,2,2) |
| ROXANNE | Cyrano de Bergerac's love in Rostand's play |
| HIGHBORN | Of noble birth, like a baby eaglet possibly |
| TALON | Feature of eaglet, a long claw |
| EYRIE | Eaglets, young, really indisposed, exasperated at the top of nest |
| AERIE | Eaglet's place in the sky |
| CYRANO | Rostand's de Bergerac |
| SKYLER | Eaglet in "Shoe" |
| THATCHED | Eaglet finally emerged from egg under straw (8) |
| EYAS | Young hawk and first eaglet, for example, soaring (4) |
| NESTER | Eaglet, for one |
| GETAWRIGGLEON | Growing eaglet developed move quickly (3,1,7,2) |
| EGLANTINE | Eaglet, in north wind, rose (9) |
| LEGATE | Vatican representative (EAGLET anagram) (6) |
| AERY | Eaglet's home (var.) |
| LEGATES | Eaglets flying around the emissaries (7) |
| NEST | Eaglet's home |
| ELONGATE | An eaglet has to get on and make it longer (8) |
| NIDICULOUS | Zoological Latin term, rather like a word for "absurd", describing a cuckoo baby, dove peep, eaglet, hawk eyas, juvenile parrot, owlet, pigeon squeaker, puffling, young woodpecker or other chick that |
