| BEWICK | Wood engraver whose field guide A History of British Birds contains tailpieces including Hanging Washing with Pigs and Chickens and Toy Boats in River (6) |
| ROOSTERS | Perch for birds contains regular debris from male fowl |
| SPOTTER | Person who observes birds, trees. planes, weather etc as a hobby or job, sometimes using a handbook or field guide of the same name (7) |
| SONGBIRDS | Blackbirds, robins and thrushes all belong to this group of British birds (9) |
| POLO | Sport whose field is about nine times as big as a football field |
| GROUSE | Red -; Galliform of heather moorland used as the emblem of a brand of whisky and the journal British Birds that is Scotland's national game bird (6) |
| DORE | Once employer of some 40 wood engravers, a French artist whose lavish illustrations grace editions of the Bible, Don Quixote, Inferno and other literary classics (4) |
| THOMASBEWICK | A swan and a wren were named after this wood engraver |
| FOOTBALL | Sport on whose field you'd find the first word of each starred entry |
| HOGARTH | William ___, English engraver whose works include the series of paintings A Rake's Progress (7) |
| BIRDER | One with a life list, binoculars, and a field guide |
| TOADSTOOL | According to a field guide, the distinction between ____s and mushrooms has no scientific basis at all |
| BLAKE | Poet, painter and engraver whose illustrated collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes The Shepherd, The Lamb, Hie Blossom and Spring (5) |
| ENSOR | Belgian painter and engraver whose works include Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 and the etching of a winter scene, Les Patineurs (5) |
| LAPWINGS | British birds of the plover family, also known as peewits (8) |
| WILLIAMHOGARTH | Artist and engraver whose masterpiece is Marriage a la Mode (7,7) |
| VIGNETTES | Foliage ornaments in books, carvings or manuscripts; illustrations fading into borderless backgrounds; or, head/tailpieces on title pages or at the beginning of chapters (9) |
| BOTANIST | One whose field is flowers |
| CASTROPHYSICIST | Scientist whose field is Cuban president Raul? |
| MRI | Scanner whose field strength is measured in teslas, for short |
