| SORA | Yellow-billed rail or crake of North America (4) |
| RAIL | A bar forming a fence, racecourse barrier or train track; a complaint; a crake or flufftail; or, a curtain rod (4) |
| ORYX | - and Crake; novel by Alias Grace author Margaret Atwood (4) |
| MONO | Kind of rail or plane |
| TRAM | Electrically powered passenger vehicle running on road rails; or, a cart or tub used in a coal mine (4) |
| ROOF | Where one might find a rack, rails or bars (4) |
| BIRD | Rail or quail |
| OXPECKER | African bird such as the Yellow-billed ? or Red-billed ? (8) |
| COMMONGULL | Yellow-billed seabird, Larus canus, with greenish-yellow legs (6, 4) |
| BALUSTER | Any of a set of posts supporting a rail or coping (8) |
| TWITE | Name, thought imitative of its note, for a brown linnet-like bird with a pale-pinkish rump, whose Latin epithet, Linaria flavirostris, means yellow-billed linen weaver (5) |
| CHOIR | Part of a church in front of the altar, often separated from the nave by a rail or screen (5) |
| MADEIRACAKE | Aimed at a crake, missed, got a sponge instead (7,4) |
| TERMINI | End points of rail or bus routes |
| SHIPMENT | The transfer of goods as cargo by sea, rail or air (8) |
| TERMINAL | End of a rail or bus line (8) |
| JIMCROW | Tool that bends or straightens iron rails or bars (3,4) |
| CRAKE | Short-billed rail |
| STAGECOACH | Horse-drawn vehicle used to carry passengers and mail prior to the advent of rail; or, a movie by John Ford with Claire Trevor and John Wayne (10) |
| TRACTION | The grip of a wheel on a rail, or a tyre on a road (8) |
