| FLITTER | Word linking with "mouse" for an old word for the flying mammal studied in chiropterology (7) |
| BATS | Implements used in the sport described in Henry Newbolt's poem Vitai Lampada ; or, flying mammals studied in chiropterology, such as pipistrelles (4) |
| VISNOMY | Old word for the art of judging human character from the phiz, aka face (7) |
| AIRCREW | Rice war that's a bit unfortunate for the flying team (7) |
| AIRPORT | Base for the flying squad (7) |
| ONLYYOU | Number One hit for the Flying Pickets in 1983 (4,3) |
| CATCHIT | Mouser given official note on what to do with mouse! (5,2) |
| PETHATE | Personal peeve - like when your cat brings in a dead mouse for you as a gift! (3,4) |
| PLAY | Games or exercise taken for recreation; a dramatic work for stage or screen; an old word for the activity of gambling; or, the courtship performance of animals (4) |
| PATE | An old word for the head that, with the addition of two accents, describes forcemeat, rillettes or terrine (4) |
| UPSTAIRS | Old word for the part of a large house occupied by its masters and mistresses as opposed to the servants' quarters in the basement (8) |
| GUST | An old word for the faculty of taste; flavour, gratification or relish; an abrupt gale or blast of air; or, any sudden rush/outburst, as in emotion fire, passion, rain, smoke or sound (4) |
| TRAITS | An old word for the pen or pencil strokes in pictures, which came to mean distinguishing features or peculiarities of mind or character (6) |
| YULETIDE | Old word for the season of Christmas or, a red-flowered cultivar of the Camellia sasanqua (8) |
| LOAD | Freight; quantity of laundry in a washing machine; old word for the weight of blows; or, power output (4) |
| ERUGO | An old word for the blueish-green cupric acetate, patina or verdigris that forms on brass, bronze or copper (5) |
| SWEENEYTODD | Cockney rhyming slang for the flying squad (7,4) |
| SEXAGESIMA | Old word for the second Sunday before Lent (10) |
| AIRSPACE | Room for the flying squad? (8) |
| GLIDER | Another name for the flying phalanger (6) |
