| NONCEWORD | Flying condor and wren lose rook - that's frabjous, say! |
| CHILE | Its coat of arms features a condor and Andean deer |
| AUGUSTOPINOCHET | Dictator behind the operations Condor and Colombo |
| RUBY | "___ Gillman, Teenage Kraken" (2023 movie featuring the voices of Lana Condor and Jane Fonda) |
| WEDS | Makes like Lana Condor and Anthony de la Torre |
| AGATE | Stone with condor and moss varieties |
| ZOE | Sister of Hammie and Wren in the comic strip 'Baby Blues' |
| WARMONGER | Hawk and wren go off to collect wing (9) |
| CARROLL | Pen name of an author, puzzle inventor and Oxford mathematics don who coined portmanteau words including bandersnatch, burble, chortle, frabjous, frumious, galumph, jabberwocky and mimsy (7) |
| AVES | Class of vertebrates that includes the dawn chorus songsters blackbird, mistle thrush, robin and wren (4) |
| BIRDS | Robin and wren |
| TITLARK | Another name for the streaky brown meadow pipit in the order Aves with fellow feathered vertebrates including robin, swan, turkey, turtledove and wren (7) |
| RIVETER | One pinning rook - that's stopping check with another |
| DOORKEEPER | Guard poor rook that's in deeper (10) |
| PRECIOUS | Risky sacrificing a rook that's valuable |
| TYPO | Novice taking pawn instead of rook: that's a mistake (4) |
| NONSENSEVERSE | A frabjous set of lines, perhaps by Lear, that gyre and gimble to the ear |
| HERD | Collective noun for cattle, elephants, fairies, sea horses and wrens (4) |
| BIRDBATH | Miniature pool used by avian wildlife including blue tits, chaffinches, robins and wrens (8) |
| HIS | "'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in ___ joy" |
