| WATERBIRD | Such as a duck or swan |
| WILDFOWL | Inhabiting the Slimbridge haven founded by Sir Peter Scott, type of water bird such as a duck or swan (8) |
| WATERFOWL | Aquatic bird such as a duck, goose or swan, or any one of those inhabiting the wetlands founded by Sir Peter Scott at Slimbridge (9) |
| BLOB | A unit of mass equal to 12 slugs; a duck or score of zero in cricket; a dab or spot of colour; or, a globule (4) |
| ICE | Place for a Duck or a Penguin |
| PEBBLE | Pocket-sized rock, polished by the tide, evocative of a duck or a drake when skimmed on the water's glide (6) |
| FOIEGRAS | Fattened liver of a duck or goose (4,4) |
| LOVE | A duck or ducks |
| TWADDLE | Start to talk and walk like a duck or cock (7) |
| DAWDLE | Hang about! You may walk like a duck or change like this (6) |
| SKEIN | Flock of wild geese, ducks or swans flying in a V-shaped formation (5) |
| WEDGE | Type of golf club for maximum loft in a bunker or trap; style of shoe with a block heel; or, a word describing a group of geese or swans in flight (5) |
| DUVET | From French for "down", word for a continental quilt stuffed with eider- or swan-down, thus a quilted coat or a mountaineer's feather-filled jacket (5) |
| SPOUTS | Drainpipes or gargoyles; nozzles, sparklers or swan necks for dispensing beer; pouring tubes of teapots; or, the blowholes or blowings of whales (6) |
| BEVY | One of the words for a company of otters or roe deer, or for a flock of doves, larks, quail or swans (4) |
| ROOSTER | A chicken, but in the duty list as a duck (7) |
| PINTAIL | As a duck you might call it plain |
| TEAL | Sometimes bluewinged as a duck |
| RUBDOWN | Dry off as a duck might? (3,4) |
| WADDLE | Totter, as a duck |
