| EMBRACED | Hugged English managing director bagging a pair of pheasants? (8) |
| EMBATTLED | Under pressure, English managing director takes on the fight (9) |
| EMBRACE | Welcome Boz back with pair of pheasants? (7) |
| BRACE | Pair of pheasants (5) |
| PAIR | A brace of pheasants, couple of lovers, distich of lines, duo of rowers, duet of singers, dyad of gloves, flight of stairs, yoke of oxen or other two of a kind or twinset of equal things (4) |
| BRACES | From "two arms", word for orthodontic retainers, pairs of pheasants, suspenders for trousers, the marks { and } or other clasping, supporting or couples of things (6) |
| HEAD | Word for a capitulum of flowers; an effigy on a coin; one's "upper storey"-encasing caput; a cabbage or lettuce, dense and round like said anterior bonce; a schoolmaster/mistress; a nide of pheasants; |
| MACNAB | The elusive one-day feat of bagging a stag, a salmon and a brace of grouse (6) |
| POOR | Wanting pair bagging a couple of Oscars? (4) |
| ALLROUNDERS | Cricketers in a game bagging a couple of fifties |
| BRAT | Little terror of a cricketer bagging a run |
| BOUQUET | Word describing a group of pheasants when flushed; the characteristic aroma of wine or perfume; or, a floral arrangement, bigger than a posy (7) |
| NIDE | Group of pheasants on the ground as opposed to a bouquet when flushed or a brace as a pair (4) |
| KAYAKED | Did some rapid shooting, perhaps, bagging a rabbit in a tick |
| KELLY | Grace shown by opener bagging a couple of fifties (5) |
| HEADS | Obverse of a coin; or, one of the words for groups of pheasants (5) |
| NYE | One of the words for a brood, flock or nest of pheasants (3) |
| NIGHTINGALE | Almost thrilling sensation when bagging a bird (11) |
| LADETTE | Woman acting as boy, character shortly bagging a duke (7) |
| EAGLEOWL | For one bagging a duck, entertained by well cooked bird (5,3) |
