| SONGBIRDS | warbler and thrush |
| NESTS | Homes for warblers and wasps |
| IVES | Zoological class comprising the chats, finches, pipits, titmice, warblers and all other bird-life (4) |
| AVES | Zoological class comprising the chats, finches, pipits, titmice, warblers and all other bird-life (4) |
| SYLVIA | From the Latin for "wood", the genus of small songbirds that includes the blackcaps, garden warblers and whitethroats (6) |
| VILLAGE | From Latin for "country house, farm" and with fictional examples including Ambridge, Chuffnell Regis, Dibley, Highbury, Nutwood, St Mary Mead and Thrush Green, a rural settlement between a hamlet and |
| MISSREAD | Pen name of Dora Saint, author of the Fairacre and Thrush Green novels (4,4) |
| ROBIN | Related to blackbird, nightingale and thrush, the UK's favourite bird (5) |
| READ | Miss -, author Dora Saint who wrote novels set in the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green (4) |
| GOLDCREST | Small Old World warbler with greenish plumage and a bright yellow-and-black crown (9) |
| TWITCHER | Who might spot booby and warbler? (8) |
| BLUEBIRD | American warbler of the thrush family (8) |
| SARDINIAN | The ___ warbler is a Mediterranean bird with a black head and red eyes (9) |
| CROONER | Charlie and Wayne briefly getting first glimpse of reed warbler (7) |
| MOREAU | Mrs ___'s warbler, bird also known as Winifred's warbler (6) |
| DONHO | Hawaiian warbler |
| TOKYODELER | Japanese warbler |
| YODELER | Mountain warbler? |
| ORPHEAN | Variety of warbler |
| DONO | Waikiki warbler |
