| SWINGER | Lively guy involving women in lark? |
| TEAROSE | Bloomer made by guy involving endless argument |
| UNWELCOME | Misguided clue involving women bringing displeasure (9) |
| LETDOWN | Poor service put on, involving women ___ it's a disappointment (7) |
| FRENCH | Actress and comedienne who formed part of a double act with Jennifer Saunders, later starring as Geraldine Granger in The Vicar of Dibley and Caroline Arless in Lark Rise to Candleford (6) |
| RISE | Brendan Coyle, who lives in Norfolk, co-starred in Lark ... to Candleford (4) |
| SAWALHA | Julia, Dorcas Lane actress in Lark Rise to Candleford (7) |
| JULIASAWALHA | ____ played Dorcas Lane in Lark Rise to Candleford |
| KNOT | Bird in lark? No, thrush (4) |
| DORCAS | First name of the post mistress played by Julia Sawalha in Lark Rise to Candleford (6) |
| SRILANKAN | Involved in larks with an islander (3,6) |
| THOMPSON | Author who fictionalised her birth hamlet Juniper Hill in Oxfordshire as Lark Rise in her Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels (8) |
| ESCAPADE | Lark in flight circling centre of meadow (8) |
| SONGBIRD | Stupidly bring in obnoxious person for a lark, perhaps (8) |
| EARLYBIRD | Possible lark ending in coarse ribaldry, -unfortunately (5,4) |
| ONSLAUGHT | Attack by a lark in a short street (9) |
| SOHAM | Cambs. town by River Lark - in Kelso hamlet (5) |
| BRIDGETTEDUBOIS | In Medium, who did Maria Lark play? (9,6) |
| BIRD | Lark in Holloway? (4) |
| RAG | Students" lark in cheap newspaper (3) |
