| FALCONRY | Described in The Book of Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry, A Kestrel for a Knave and H is for Hawk, sport or practice of training or hunting with birds of prey (8) |
| EARLYPURPLE | ___ orchid, plant with purplish-crimson flowers whose dark green leaves are marked with blackish spo |
| BARRY | English author whose novel A Kestrel for a Knave was adapted for Ken Loach's film Kes (5,5) |
| HINES | English author whose novel A Kestrel for a Knave was adapted for Ken Loach's film Kes (5,5) |
| LOACH | Ken -; director who adapted A Kestrel for a Knave to screen with the latter's author Barry Hines (5) |
| PAM | From Greek for "beloved of all" and the origin of a word for a leaflet, the jack/knave and highest card in the nap-like game loo/lanterloo (3) |
| PENROSE | Physicist collaborator of Hawking |
| TREFOIL | Three-lobed design in the form of a stylised clover leaf used in architectural tracery and heraldry (7) |
| LILY | In art and heraldry, the flower represented in a fleur-de-lis (4) |
| ROSENKAVALIER | Colloquial name of opera came up, with knave and liar confounded (13) |
| ANNULATE | Word used in architecture and heraldry to refer to "little rings" (8) |
| TREESNAKE | Resent tangling with a vacuous knave and dangerous climber (4,5) |
| AKNAVE | A Kestrel for --- ---, 1968 book by Barry Hines set in Yorkshire, telling the story of Billy Casper (1,5) |
| INSECT | Described in the books of Jean- Henri Fabre, any one of the more than one million species of arthropods whose development was influenced by the evolution of flowering plants (6) |
| HOVER | US word for a helicopter; an almost stationary flight of a kestrel or of the aforementioned aircraft; or, a brooder for keeping chicks warm (5) |
| MEW | An imitative word for the high-pitched cry of a cat/kitten or gull; the gull itself; a cage for hawks while moulting; or, a coop, hide, place of confinement or retreat generally (3) |
| ISRAELITES | People whose flight from Egypt is described in the book of Exodus in the Bible |
| GOMORRAH | City of the plain whose destruction is described in the book of Genesis (8) |
| FRET | The true-lover's knot of heraldry; a sea fog or haar; or, one of a series of metal strips or ridges on the fingerboard of a guitar (4) |
| CHAMP | A bite, as in a horse on its bit; a colcannon-like Irish dish of potatoes mashed with leeks and spring onions; a title-holder; or, in heraldry, a field (5) |
