| WRASSE | Colourful bony sea fish e.g. Ballan or Cuckoo (*swears) (6) |
| HERALD | Word for a sign of things to come, such as the first daffodil, bluebell or cuckoo call as a harbinger or spring (6) |
| OVERDO | Put too much emphasis on dove or cuckoo (6) |
| HORNET | Small flier then, or cuckoo (6) |
| HERONS | Birds, hens or cuckoo? (6) |
| KEEPER | Big fish, e.g. |
| LORDSANDLADIES | Another name for the common arum or cuckoo pint (5,3,6) |
| BOOLEANCUISINE | (Soup or salad) and (chicken or fish), e.g.? |
| ERE | "Take heed, ___ summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing": "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| COCKATIEL | Parrot or cuckoo to cackle around island (9) |
| AGGRESSION | Quality of hawk or cuckoo, e.g., soaring across sierra |
| CLOCK | Word that can follow biological or cuckoo |
| ESOTERICA | Curious things I see with cat or cuckoo (9) |
| HOTELCALIFORNIA | Eagles hit a lithe falcon or cuckoo, circling island (5,10) |
| SMOCK | Cardamine pratensis, perennial called lady's ----- or cuckoo flower (5) |
| NOUN | Cat, dog, boy or fish, e.g. |
| PROEM | An introduction of fish eg in the afternoon |
| SEAFOOD | A dose of wriggling fish eg (7) |
| GARYNEWMAN | Korda manager/globe-trotting angler of monster fish (*e.g. warn many) (4,6) |
| GAME | Go or go fish, e.g. |
