| ENDOFSTORK | Pointy bill or tail feathers? |
| QUILL | Pen made from the main wing or tail feather of a large bird, by pointing and slitting the end of the shaft (5) |
| HERONMAKEUP | Feathers, pointy bill, long legs, etc.? |
| EYES | Markings on a peacock's tail feathers; holes in needles; or, the calm regions at the centre of hurricanes or storms (4) |
| CUTAWAY | A tapering morning, newmarket or tail coat; a drawing or "exploded view" showing interior workings; a shot or scene that deviates from a movie's action; or, a flying trapeze trick (7) |
| PLUMAGE | Peacocks are best known for their amazing eye-spotted tail feathers or ___ |
| EYESPOT | Type of marking on a peacock's tail feather or on the wing of a butterfly such as gatekeeper, meadow brown, speckled wood or cabbage white (7) |
| MOLT | Lose tail feathers |
| BACK | Pull out tail feathers (4,4) |
| PEACOCK | Bird with iridescent tail feathers |
| PEACOCKS | Birds whose tail feathers are spread into colorful fans |
| PEAHEN | Female attracted to showy tail feathers |
| TRANSEPT | Wing and tail feathers missing one month (8) |
| QUILLS | Tail feathers |
| AFT | At or toward the stern or tail |
| FAN | During a display ceremony the peacock will stand its tail feathers up to form a ___ that stretches out nearly 2m in length |
| PEACOCKORE | Nickname for the mineral bornite because of its range of iridescent colours resembling the plumage and tail feathers of India's national bird (7,3) |
| HANDMEDOWN | Old garment from clothes shop with vulture's tail feathers (4-2-4) |
| UROPYGIUM | Fleshy posterior part of a bird's body from which the tail feathers grow (9) |
| EMUWREN | Small Australian bird with six coarse tall tail feathers (3,4) |
