| GODWIT | The man upstairs gets insight from a long-legged bird (6) |
| ACUMEN | Keen insight from a customary start by a group of blokes |
| GODBLESS | The man upstairs gets bottle opener to take away with one's best wishes (3,5) |
| BROLGA | Brother changes goal for a long-legged bird (6) |
| AVOCET | A long-legged wading bird with a usually black and white plumage and a long, slender, upward-curving bill (6) |
| OSPREY | Old school report? Have a word with the man upstairs - the flighty type! (6) |
| PREACH | Advocate gets to do a job for the man upstairs (6) |
| PRAYED | Pleaded with the man upstairs to remove Grant from Garden Party (6) |
| SPIDER | In snooker, a long-legged rest used to raise the cue above ball height (6) |
| WISDOM | Insight from wife is initially devoid of meaning (6) |
| APERCU | Summary exposition or revealing insight; from French, 'to perceive' (6) |
| ATTILA | Materialist dismisses miser as an old scourge of the man upstairs (6) |
| TOPDOG | Turns up, the man upstairs took drugs with the champion boxer perhaps (3,3) |
| HYAENA | A long-legged doglike wild animal (6) |
| GOTOUT | Became known, the man upstairs is short with ticket-seller (3,3) |
| JACKAL | A long-legged wild dog, found in Africa and Asia, that feeds on carrion, game and fruit (6) |
| HOTTIP | Insight from an insider |
| CRANE | A long-legged bird with Frasier, the sitcom psychiatrist (5) |
| EGRET | Having a greet about a long-legged bird (5) |
| STILT | Dialect for a crutch or a plough handle; either of a pair of poles worn to increase one's height; one of a set of posts for raising a building above the water; or, a long-legged wader (5) |
