| AUKS | Birds, as seen around GB & NI (4) |
| RAVENS | Game of Thrones birds, as seen by impressionist and actress Jan (6) |
| AVES | In taxonomy and ornithology, birds as a class of vertebrates (4) |
| WOOL | Soft hair of a sheep's fleece, used by goldfinches, chaffinches and other birds as nesting material with moss, lichen, spider web silk, thistledown, feathers etc (4) |
| JOWL | The flesh of birds as food (4) |
| EMUS | Birds as big as people |
| ZINC | Metallic element used in brass and nickel silver (4) |
| TEAL | Light greenish blue colour (named after the bird) - as in Iris '___ Velvet' (4) |
| RAIL | Bar for hanging; bird as corncrake |
| CORE | Earth's is made of iron and nickel |
| TECK | Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by marriage to George V (4,2,4) |
| ANNE | Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 (4) |
| ERIC | Great Britain and Wigan rugby league captain awarded an MBE in 1966 (4,6) |
| ISLE | ___ of Man (territory between Great Britain and Ireland) |
| CADE | Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in the 1700s |
| MASCARA | Cosmetic surgery on arm, as seen around California (7) |
| AVOIDS | Hedges, as seen around abyss? |
| UKRAINE | Britain and NI getting precipitation, along with Spain and another country (7) |
| GASSY | Bubbly and happy crowds around Great Britain? |
| UNITEDKINGDOM | GB and N Ireland (6,7) |
