| EGRET | Bird, for example rook, starts to eye turkey (5) |
| SETPIECES | For example, rooks in corners? |
| CORNER | Where rook starts on the chess board (6) |
| AONE | Where the white rook starts out |
| ENMITY | Start to eye Frenchman in tiny ground showing hatred (6) |
| EREADER | Start to eye retired journalist in back producing handheld device (1,6) |
| EPITAPH | Start to eye Greek character on winding path making form of inscription (7) |
| GETIT | See bird, for example, flying north |
| GEESE | Birds, for example, head north across English home counties (5) |
| AGREE | See eye-to-eye with a Greek for the most part (5) |
| PATTERN | Be nice to a dog and a bird, for example |
| RHYMINGSLANG | Daisy roots, china plate and dicky bird, for example (7,5) |
| EAGLE | First to eye silver ___ the French bird (5) |
| EAGRE | English see eye to eye only briefly? That's a bore (5) |
| BRIDGE | A game bird for example all of a flutter (6) |
| SWANAGE | Stately bird - for example, one brought up in Dorset (7) |
| DIVERGE | Bird, for example, taking off from branch |
| LOGO | Snapchat's ghost or Twitter's bird for example |
| ARBOREAL | Boar surprisingly existing like a bird, for example? (8) |
| EGRETS | Bird, for example, taking out rest (6) |