| BUSTARD | The great ____, a chalk downland bird in southern England, became extinct in 1832, and was reintroduced on Salisbury Plain in 2003 |
| GATSBY | The Great ___, a Robert Redford film based on a novel (6) |
| HENRYCLAY | Presidential also-ran in 1824, 1832, and 1844 |
| SCIROCCO | Old bird in southern Channel Islands has company in hot dusty wind (8) |
| OUSE | Great ___, a major river of the Fenlands (4) |
| SCREECHOWL | Eastern ___ ___ (Raptor bird in southern Ontario) |
| PRESBYTERIAN | The ____ Church of England became part of the United Reformed Church in 1972 |
| NORMANS | In the 11th century, England became a colony of these conquerors |
| HEATHHEN | A bird of the grouse family in North America that became extinct in 1932 (5,3) |
| PASSENGERPIGEON | North American bird which once numbered in the billions but became extinct in the early 1900s (9.6) |
| GREATAUK | Large flightless bird that became extinct in the 1840s (5,3) |
| AUROCHS | Large predecessor of modern cattle, Bos primigenius, which became extinct in the early 1600s (7) |
| RIDEAU | This 200-km (125-mile) canal between Ottawa and Lake Ontario at Kingston was completed in 1832. It was built as a military project to provide a secure connection between Montreal and Kingston. It was |
| WYEDOWNS | Stretch of chalk downland and woodland in Kent whose most spectacular coombe is known as the Devil's Kneading Trough |
| ADONIS | ___ blue, butterfly with white-fringed wings that frequents southern chalk downland in the UK (6) |
| QUAGGA | Zebra subspecies that became extinct in the 1880s |
| ROUGHINGITINTHEBUSH | 1852 literary classic 'Forest Life in Canada' by born-in-england-in-1803 writer Susanna Moodie who settled in the British colony of Upper Canada in 1832: 5 wds. |
| DODO | It became extinct in 1681 |
| SNARK | Fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem, The Hunting of the ___; Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born in Daresbury in 1832 (5) |
| DORSET | Main county reflected in Thomas Hardy's Wessex; site of a Neolithic cursus spanning part of the chalk downlands of Cranborne Chase (6) |
