| SELMA | Yellowhammer State city |
| ALABAMA | US state known as Heart of Dixie, Yellowhammer State or Cotton State (7) |
| ALA | Yellowhammer State: Abbr. |
| ALABASTER | Turkey-roasting tool in the Yellowhammer State? |
| ALABAMAMOBILE | Calder sculpture in the Yellowhammer State? |
| ALABAMAN | Someone from the Yellowhammer state in USA (8) |
| YETI | In the city it expires: in the country it's a yellowhammer (4) |
| MERLIN | Falcon of the yellowhammer/linnet family (6) |
| OHIOWALABAMA | Buckeye-Hawkeye-Yellowhammer |
| YITE | Yellowhammer - in January, it escapes |
| BUNTING | Yellowhammer can put in plug (7) |
| ETERNITY | Bird in relationship standing on head of yellowhammer all the time (8) |
| AVES | Class of vertebrates whose farmland examples include the corn bunting, skylark, yellowhammer, grey partridge, linnet and lapwing (4) |
| SONGS | Coos, pinks, pipes, trills, tweets, twitters, whistles and other avian vocalisations including those of the yellowhammer described as "a little bit of bread and no cheese" (5) |
| MONTAGU | With several species named after him including a blenny and a harrier, the author of Ornithological Dictionary who first distinguished the cirl bunting from the yellowhammer (7) |
| NOCHEESE | 'Little bit of bread and ___', Yellowhammer mnemonic (2,6) |
| VERDIN | From French for "yellowhammer", a North American titmouse-like penduline bird whose Latin epithet, Auriparus flaviceps, means "yellow-headed golden chickadee" (6) |
| CIRL | From "whistle as a thrush", a species of bunting resembling a female yellowhammer (4) |
| YOKEL | From dialectal English for "green woodpecker, yellowhammer", a towny term for a bumpkin, clodhopper, country cousin, hayseed or other supposedly unsophisticated rustic (5) |
| ENTITY | Something found in the wren, tit, yellowhammer and finch (6) |
