| SITTELLA | Trimmed sapling provided with perch for songbird |
| BASS | Ah, that's beer with perch (4) |
| POLAND | European country's river with perch (6) |
| TOMTIT | Square to get rid of it for songbird (6) |
| PORTOLANO | Book of maps showing river as habitat for songbird? |
| NUTHATCH | Produce egg after fruit for songbird (8) |
| COALTIT | Tail wagging in shelter for songbird? Could be mine |
| FINCH | Learner leaves quail for songbird (5) |
| PIPIT | Seed, nutritious in the middle, for songbird (5) |
| REDSTART | Sign to stop or begin for songbird (8) |
| TITFORTAT | Retaliation for songbird being in favour of shoddy goods (3,3,3) |
| WARBLERS | General name for songbirds in a family that includes blackcaps, chiffchaffs and whitethroats (8) |
| ABUNUWAS | Classical Arabic writer noted for his beautiful, homoerotic lyric verses: "I die of love for him, perfect in every way/ [...] His waist is a sapling, his face a moon/ And loveliness rolls off his rosy |
| NEUTRINO | Zero charge for this sapling, reportedly? Over my dead body (8) |
| AHOLE | Dig _ ___ (Prep for sapling-planting) |
| ATREEGROWSINBROOKLYN | 1943 novel "Whaddya Tink? A Sapling Stays a Sapling Fuhevah?" |
| CHARLIEBROWN | He used a sapling for a Christmas tree |
| MAIDEN | One-year-old sapling with no side shoots is referred to as this (6) |
| TILLER | A lever attached to a boat's rudder for steering; the stock of a crossbow; a cultivator or plough; or, a sapling (6) |
| WAND | Something slender and supple, such as a cutting, osier, sapling, stick, or switch; a baton, caduceus or rod of a conductor, conjurer, diviner, fairy or magician; a mark in archery; or, a "spoolie" for |
