| VOTERS | Body of people known collectively as an electorate or constituency (6) |
| PLEBISCITE | The direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question (10) |
| TAKEASEAT | Win an electorate and put one's feet up (4,1,4) |
| REFERENDA | General votes by an electorate on a single political issue (9) |
| CANARY | Yellow finch known collectively as an aria or an opera and formerly employed as a colliery gas detector; a Madeira-like wine; or, an informal word for a jailbird or a soprano (6) |
| MERLIN | Known collectively as an illusion and sometimes laying its eggs in an old crow's nest, a falcon or "pigeon hawk" of heather moorland that is the UK's smallest bird of prey (6) |
| AVOCET | Bird known collectively as an orchestra whose pied species is used as an emblem of the RSPB (6) |
| BISHOP | Prelate known collectively as an episcopacy; mitre-topped chess piece; or, a type of mulled wine (6) |
| SURVEY | Collection of data for mapping; an inspection of a building to ascertain its condition or value; or, a body of people for either of said purposes (6) |
| POLITY | A body of people organised under a system of government (6) |
| INTAKE | Body of people entering into an organisation, new recruits (6) |
| COLONY | A body of people settled in a foreign country, forming a separate ethnic or cultural group (6) |
| NATION | Anoint sick in a large body of people (6) |
| BEAR | An animal such as the seal-eating heavy white "polar" species of Arctic regions, which is fancifully known collectively as an aurora or a celebration (4) |
| RAVEN | Known collectively as an unkindness, a buzzard-sized bird related to the crow,jackdaw, jay and rook; one of the avian guardians of the Tower Of London (5) |
| LARKS | Songbirds known collectively as an exaltation; or, people who prefer to get up early in the morning, as opposed to "night owls" (5) |
| BISHOPS | Prelates known collectively as an episcopacy; or, chesspieces associated with the development or strategy of fianchettoing (7) |
| ANTS | Proverbial for industriousness and capable of carrying around 5,000 times their own body weight, insects known collectively as an army (4) |
| HEDGEHOG | Mammal known collectively as an array or a prickle; a gardener's ally (8) |
| HEDGEHOGS | Known collectively as an array or a prickle, animals rescued by Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital (9) |
