| EYESPOT | Type of marking on a peacock's tail feather or on the wing of a butterfly such as gatekeeper, meadow brown, speckled wood or cabbage white (7) |
| EYES | Markings on a peacock's tail feathers; holes in needles; or, the calm regions at the centre of hurricanes or storms (4) |
| NOTATION | Heavyweight turns into a type of marking (8) |
| BUTTERFLY | With species include the chalkhill blue, gatekeeper, meadow brown, monarch, painted lady and peacock, an insect with a life cycle in four stages (9) |
| SHUTTERS | Venetian blind-like pedal-operated "shades" enclosing swell boxes in pipe organs; hinged louvred jalousies or wooden panels for windows; or, devices in cameras acting as gatekeepers of light (8) |
| PLUMAGE | Peacocks are best known for their amazing eye-spotted tail feathers or ___ |
| PAPILLON | Dog with ears resembling the wings of a butterfly |
| SWALLOWTAIL | Butterfly such as Papilio machaon with a tail-like extension of each hind wing (11) |
| ANGUS | Butterfly such as the Scotch --- (5) |
| SICKLE | A reaping-hook; a long curved tail feather of a cockerel, reminiscent of said tool; or, with the galleon and the knut, a unit of wizarding currency in the Harry Potter universe (6) |
| ALULA | Small projection on the anterior edge of the wing of a bird, also called a bastard wing |
| QUILL | Pen made from the main wing or tail feather of a large bird, by pointing and slitting the end of the shaft (5) |
| STRIPE | "Go-faster" marking on a racing car; a band of colour on an angelfish, badger, bumblebee, tiger or zebra; or, a chevron on a military sleeve (6) |
| SPOT | Domino pip; a ranking; a marking on a Dalmatian; or, a small quantity of something such as lunch (4) |
| STRUT | Walk on the wing of a tiger moth, say ... (5) |
| AMEN | ...with some dream ending on the wing of a prayer. (4) |
| TWINGE | The sort of pain felt on the wing of an alien |
| WINGSPAN | The distance from tip to tip of the wings of a bird or aircraft (8) |
| TRUSS | To skewer or bind the wings of a fowl before cooking / an appliance for giving support in case of rupture or hernia |
| COCKATRICE | Legendary monstrous serpent with the wings of a bird and the head of a rooster |
