| COCKROBIN | In the nursery rhyme it was this bird that the sparrow killed with his bow and arrow (4,5) |
| SPARROW | He killed Cock Robin with his bow and arrow |
| CLYDEBARROW | Notorious criminal killed with his partner in 1934 |
| COCKATOO | Weathercock a toolshed had was this bird (8) |
| NUTTREE | In a nursery rhyme it bore only "a silver nutmeg and a golden pear" (3,4) |
| SERIEMA | There are two types of this bird that live in South America. They eat snakes, which they kill by banging the snakes' heads on the ground. They can fly, but they prefer to escape danger by running away |
| GANNET | Solan goose was this bird's former name |
| RHEA | Hear about this bird that can't fly? (4) |
| EROS | God who "caught up his bow and drew a shaft of desire," per the epic poem "Dionysiaca" |
| ARCHER | He takes his bow and hopes he makes a hit (6) |
| VERSE | Like rhyme, it may be made to serve (5) |
| UCLA | Berkeley was the radical campus of the 60s but in the 30s it was this Los Angeles university that was described as a hotbed of communism (1,1,1,1) |
| ABATTOIRS | Where animals killed with a stab, riot possibly (9) |
| JUSTINBIEBER | The event's recent headline performers include Madonna and Cher; in 2021 it was this Canadian pop star |
| STEPHEN | It was this saint's day when good King Wencelas looked out, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even |
| ELEPHANT | Aristotle once said it was this large beast 'which passeth all others in wit and mind' |
| HAROLD | Killed with an arrow to his eye by Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (6) |
| DIEGOMARADONA | God to blame ultimately in drama (foul one)? No, it was this bloke (5,8) |
| BOSWORTH | - Field; site of the battle of the Wars of the Roses where Richard III was killed with a halberd enabling Henry Tudor to be crowned as king (8) |
| DEN | The original Queen Vic landlord who was killed with a doorstop by his then-wife Chrissie Watts (3) |
