| LOVEBIRDS | Couples whose openly romantic behaviour parrots the affectionate colourful avians of the same name (9) |
| BLUEBIRDS | American singing avians of the thrush family (9) |
| BIRD | Colourful avian, ... of Paradise |
| FLIRTATIOUSNESS | Anti-florists? Use butchers for romantic behaviour (15) |
| NENES | Avians of Maui |
| ERNE | Big avian of the Norwegian fjords |
| CERE | In birds such as the parrot, the waxy structure at the base of the beak that contains the nostrils (4) |
| FONDA | Jane's the affectionate one (5) |
| DOTE | Act the affectionate grandparent |
| OWL | -- -parrot, the kakapo (3) |
| MIMIC | Parrot the Bohemian girl caught (5) |
| PUNCH | The Affectionate, actually not a hit album from The Associates (5) |
| BYRD | Name, similar to that of an avian, of Elizabeth I's favourite composer (4) |
| ASTORS | Couple whose fate was reported in banner headlines about the Titanic |
| VOYSEY | A central figure of the Arts and Crafts movement whose textile design Birds of Many Climes depicts avians including blue tanager, canary, finch, Japanese robin, king bird-of-paradise and yellow-tufted |
| FLIGHT | Word for a bird or plane's airborne journey; a soaring of swallows or other avians; the trajectory of an arrow or dart; a wandering of fancy or imagination; or, an act of fleeing (6) |
| PELICANS | Birds with the largest bills of all avians; symbols of Elizabeth I and of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
| THEKISS | Rodin sculpture featuring a couple whose lips don't quite touch |
| SHELLS | Outer layers of oological objects whose colours are used to identify the avians which laid them (6) |
| RAFTERGLOW | ... a couple whose house is on fire? |
