| GRUS | Symbolised by a crane, one of the constellations named after a bird, along with Aquila the Eagle, Columba the Dove, Corvus the Crow, Cygnus the Swan and others (4) |
| ANTLIA | Symbolising an air pump, one of the constellations named after scientific instruments by astronomer Lacaille who also determined the positions of some 10,000 stars (6) |
| OWLS | In an Edward Lear verse, what birds, along with larks, a hen and a wren, built their nests in a beard? (4) |
| DAVIT | What small crane, one of a pair, suspends or lowers a lifeboat? (5) |
| ALTAIR | Brightest star in Aquila the Eagle (6) |
| NEST | Structure put together by a crane |
| HENLEY | Eagles co-founder Don |
| NORMA | One of the constellations named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille after scientific instruments (5) |
| CHERRYPICKER | Crane, one employed on a fruit farm? |
| ERNE | Bird along the coast |
| IBIS | Bird along the Nile River |
| SAGITTA | Third-smallest of the constellations, in the northern hemisphere between Cygnus and Aquila; the Arrow (7) |
| RESONANCE | Sonority of cranes one has upset (9) |
| TUCANA | One of the constellations forming the "Southern Birds" with Grus the Crane, Pavo the Peacock and Phoenix (6) |
| INDIS | Containing the star known as the Persian, one of the constellations charted in Bayer's Uranometria by means of copperplate engraving (5) |
| ECLIPTIC | The large circle representing the apparent path of the Sun among the constellations in the course of a year |
| PARROTFISH | Brightly coloured marine creature with a beaked mouth, named after a bird (10) |
| DOVE | Bird sometimes roosting in a cote or a culverhouse, used as a symbol of peace or of the constellation Columba (4) |
| HYDRA | Largest of the constellations, whose brightest star is Alphard (Arabic, 'the solitary one') (5) |
| EAGLERAYS | Flattened fish named after a bird of prey (5,4) |
