| GOLDEN | Type of pheasant that supplies crest and tippet fly-tying feathers (6) |
| SCARF | A stole and tippet are types of this item of clothing (5) |
| AMHERSTS | Lady ___ pheasant provides red crest fly tying feathers (8) |
| MALLARD | Wild duck species offering a selection of fly-tying feathers (7) |
| PORRIDGE | Bird, type of pheasant that's alternatively used for art |
| PARTRIDGE | Type of pheasant |
| SULTAN | Small domestic fowl with a white crest and heavily feathered legs and feet that originated in Turkey (6) |
| BOBBIN | Reel, of fly-tying thread, for example (6) |
| CATGUT | Fly-tying cord made of sheep intestines (*cut tag) (6) |
| IGUANA | Large lizard with a dorsal crest and throat appendages |
| SILVER | Fly-tying tinsel colour (6) |
| BRACES | From "two arms", word for orthodontic retainers, pairs of pheasants, suspenders for trousers, the marks { and } or other clasping, supporting or couples of things (6) |
| CUPTIE | Lovely trapping first of pheasants -- game (3,3) |
| PAIR | A brace of pheasants, couple of lovers, distich of lines, duo of rowers, duet of singers, dyad of gloves, flight of stairs, yoke of oxen or other two of a kind or twinset of equal things (4) |
| SHELLKNOT | Sort of hitch for tying tippet/leader to baited hook (5,4) |
| VENIARD | Long-established UK supplier of fly-tying materials and tools (7) |
| LACQUER | Type of resin varnish used in fly-tying (7) |
| CURRYCOMB | Indian dish made of fowl's crest and horse's tackle? (9) |
| LORIMAR | Producers of "Dallas," "Falcon Crest," and "Knots Landing" |
| TUFTEDDUCK | Medium-sized diving bird with a small crest and yellow eyes (6,4) |
