| STARLING | One of a flock of birds forming a murmuration; or, the physiologist who founded endocrinology (8) |
| MALPIGHI | Italian physiologist who founded the science of microscopic anatomy in 1661, discovering the alveoli, capillaries etc. (8,8) |
| MARCELLO | And 37 Italian physiologist who founded the science of microscopic anatomy in 1661, discovering the alveoli, capillaries etc. (8,8) |
| SHEEP | One of a flock of ovine ruminants imagined jumping a fence, in an attempt to fall asleep (5) |
| DREAD | Word for awe or deep reverence; great fear or horror; an object of terror; a sudden take-off of a flock of gulls; or, Rastafari fear of God, thus one of the natty locks of a Rastafarian (5) |
| REMEDIES | After some sleep, head of endocrinology passes on medicine (8) |
| MINISTER | Leader of a flock |
| BRETHREN | Members of a flock |
| SONGS | General word for the vocalisations of thrushes, wrens, robins, finches and other birds forming a dawn chorus (5) |
| COLUMBINE | From the Latin for "dove", the flower, "granny's bonnet", with petals reminiscent of a flock of five doves, whose original Latin name, Aquilegia, alludes to its hook-like spurs, thought to resemble an |
| STARLINGS | A flock of these birds is called a 'murmuration' (9) |
| ADRENALGLAND | In endocrinology, one of the structures attached to the top of each kidney (7,5) |
| PASTOR | Meaning "shepherd" and "to feed", a herder in charge of a flock; or, by extension, a minister with the care of a congregation (6) |
| GAGGLE | Horse, biting a leg, scattered a flock of birds (6) |
| BULLFINCH | Known in Welsh as coch y berllan (red of the orchard), bird forming in a flock described as a bellowing (9) |
| AVIS | Hogwarts spell that produces a flock of birds |
| COVEY | A flock of birds (5) |
| FLYOFF | Scatter like a flock of birds |
| VEE | Shape of a flock of geese |
| BEVY | Be very heartless with a flock of birds (4) |
