| FLEW | Took to the skies like a bird or Superman |
| MIDAIR | Happening in the skies, like collision (6) |
| AVIATED | Took to the skies |
| SOARED | Took to the skies |
| TWEETED | Made a sound like a bird or sent a message on the Twitter website |
| FLIES | Soars like a bird or a plane (or insects with wings) |
| EAT | One may do it like a bird or like a pig |
| FREE | Liberated, like a bird; or, gratis (4) |
| ELAL | Airline whose name translates from Hebrew to 'to the skies' (2,2) |
| SKY | Where to see a bird a plane or Superman |
| HEAVEN | Lift northwards to the skies (6) |
| FLIGHTOFFANCY | Pipe-dream of pigeons taking to the skies? (6,2,5) |
| HELICOPTER | I get aboard front part of fairground ride, something taking to the skies |
| ITS | "A bird," "a plane" or "Superman" preceder |
| FLIER | A bird, a plane, or Superman |
| PIPE | A hose or other tube; a butt of wine equal to two hogsheads; a high voice; a note of a bird; or, a chillum (4) |
| WING | A modified forelimb of a bat or a bird; or, something suggestive of this, such as an ala of a sycamore seed or a sail of a ship/windmill (4) |
| FLIGHT | Word for a bird or plane's airborne journey; a soaring of swallows or other avians; the trajectory of an arrow or dart; a wandering of fancy or imagination; or, an act of fleeing (6) |
| SWALLOW | Bird with a forked tail that catches insects on the wing and spends the winter in tropical Africa, thousands can be seen in the skies over Mallorca during its spring and autumn migratory passage (7) |
| CHIRRUP | Word meaning jolly along; a cluck made with the lips when urging forth one's pony or hack; a cheep of a bird; or, a click of a cricket (7) |