| PASTURE | Wild-flower-rich grassland providing grazing for livestock and a habit for lapwings, meadow pipits, skylarks and other ground-nesting birds (7) |
| MEADOW | Flower-rich grassland good for biodiversity (6) |
| PEEWITS | Another name for lapwings (7) |
| DECEIT | Collective term for lapwings is trickery! (6) |
| BARN | Farm building for livestock and hay, sometimes converted into living accommodation; or, a unit of cross section area used in particle physics (4) |
| JIMJAMS | Fit of depression's a habit for some when retired |
| REHAB | Place to kick a habit, for short |
| BARNS | Places for livestock and hay |
| OVERLAY | Blanket? No place for lapwing to produce eggs |
| PEEWEE | Small vegetable first, say, for lapwing (6) |
| PEEWIT | Another name for lapwing (6) |
| NIBLICK | A bad habit for a clerk can be good for a golfer (7) |
| TITLARKS | Folk/regional name for the meadow pipits that often fall victim to the dupery of nest-hijacking cuckoos (8) |
| RAGWORT | Yellow wild flower considered a weed due to its toxicity to livestock and horses (7) |
| HEFT | Word whose various meanings include an unfenced area of grazing for a flock of sheep accustomed to shepherding themselves; bulk/weight, thus influence; a bundle of fastened sheets of paper; or, a fasc |
| TITLARK | Another name for the streaky brown meadow pipit in the order Aves with fellow feathered vertebrates including robin, swan, turkey, turtledove and wren (7) |
| ROTTWEILER | Large and powerful black-and-brown German dog used to herd livestock and pull carts (10) |
| LEAPT | Meadow pipit's outside and flew up |
| ABSENTEEISM | Sees men a bit in a mess - bad habit for employees? (11) |
| TITLING | Scottish name for the meadow pipit (7) |
