| PARTRIDGE | Short-tailed game bird in the pheasant family (9) |
| PAVO | Bird genus in the pheasant family (Phasianidae) to which the peacock belongs (4) |
| QUAILS | Small, short-tailed game birds resembling tiny partridges (6) |
| FRANCOLIN | The Cape ___ or spurfowl is a game bird of the pheasant family found in the Cape provinces and Namibia (9) |
| PHEASANTS | Long-tailed game birds |
| PEAFOWL | Often kept on the grounds of a country estate and known collectively as a muster, ostentation or a pride, the largest member of the pheasant family (7) |
| QUAIL | Bird of the pheasant family |
| PEAHEN | Large female bird of the pheasant family (6) |
| PHEASANT | Long-tailed game bird with a brightly coloured plumage in the male (8) |
| GREYHEN | Game bird in putting area outside youth hostel |
| PARTRIDGES | Game birds in a family that includes pheasants, chickens, peafowls and turkeys (10) |
| PEAR | Sweet edible fruit that is mentioned along with a small game bird in a traditional Christmas carol (4) |
| RAISINS | Items fed to the pheasants in Roald Dahl's Danny, the Champion of the World (7) |
| RINGS | Haloes; circular markings such as those on the necks of the pheasants said to be alluded to in The 12 Days of Christmas chimes, jingles, peals or tinkles; or, bands, such as signets (5) |
| GUINEAFOWL | African bird related to the pheasant (6,4) |
| OVEN | It warms the pheasant in my mansion |
| JAPANESEGREEN | The pheasant, in oriental speak, is environmentally friendly (8,5) |
| GAMEKEEPERS | Match with the goalies to look after the pheasants? (11) |
| NIDE | Pheasant family |
| THEGAMESUP | The pheasants have taken wing - we're rumbled! (3,5,2) |
