| PHALAROPE | Red-necked -; with a grey relative, a wading bird related to sandpipers and snipes, of which the female is notably more colourful than the male (9) |
| KNOTS | Rope fastenings tied as part of essential skills at Scouts; units of nautical speed; or, wading birds related to sandpipers, turnstones and snipe (5) |
| MADE | Necked, with "out" |
| SANDPIPER | Any long-billed shorebird of the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes), related to the woodcocks and snipes (9) |
| PEKOE | Earl Grey relative |
| BIRDS | Grouse and snipe |
| IBIS | Long-legged wading bird related to storks with a downwardly-curving bill and a wingspan of up to a m |
| SNIPE | Known collectively as a walk or a wisp, a wading bird related to the woodcock found in marshes and wetlands (5) |
| HERON | Known collectively as a sedge or a hedge, a wading bird related to the little egret, spoonbill and bittern (5) |
| SHORELINE | Part of the coast where the ocean meets the land; the habitat of birds such as sandpipers and turnstones (9) |
| COALTIT | Small passerine bird of Eurasia and Africa with a grey body and blackand-white head; Parus ater (4,3) |
| WOODCOCK | Enigmatic mainly nocturnal wading bird related to the snipe that carries its young in flight (8) |
| SPLIT | "Piccolo", "pony" or "snipe" of champagne; a half-bottle of aerated water; a cream bun from Devon; or, a pudding with a sliced banana (5) |
| RODENT | Word, from "fly homeward in the evening", for the regular dusk or dawn flight of the "snipe of the woods" (6) |
| GALAH | Small Australian cockatoo with a grey back and wings and a pink body; Kakatoe or Eolophus roseicapilla (5) |
| GREYPLOVER | Wading bird related to the lapwing (4,6) |
| PRATINCOLE | Wading bird, related to the coursers (10) |
| KNOT | Wading bird related to sanderlings (4) |
| BITTERNS | Wading birds related to the heron, noted for their booming calls (8) |
| WADERS | General word for shoreline birds such as sandpipers and plovers; or, long waterproof boots for angling (6) |
