| CLARICE | Silence of the Lambs agent, - Starling (7) |
| LECTER | Agent Starling's "advisor" |
| SILENCE | A Martin Scorsese film or what Clarice Starling wants (7) |
| FALLING | What you saw in the skies at night was caused by starlings, Alf (7,5) |
| HEROINE | Clarice Starling, e.g. |
| DEMESNE | Land lower starlings head for after first eagle's left (7) |
| JODIEFOSTER | Clarice Starling in the 1991 movie, The Silence of the Lambs (5,6) |
| FBI | Clarice Starling's employer in The Silence of the Lambs: Abbr. |
| FOSTER | Clarice Starling in The Silence Of The Lambs, Jodie - - -, pictured right (6) |
| WATTLING | This type of starling loses its head feathers in the breeding season and then regrows them, a trait that has drawn the interest of scientists researching baldness. |
| IRIDESCENCE | The shimmering play of rainbow colours observed on bubbles, butterfly wings, mother-of-pearl, opal, peacock plumage, starling feathers etc (11) |
| MYNA | Bird of the starling family |
| MYNAS | Members of the starling family |
| LING | The starling has finally reached the heather |
| SPECKS | The first starling eats bits of dust (6) |
| PASTOR | From Latin for "shepherd, feeder", a cleric considered the shepherd of a flock; or, a rose-coloured starling (6) |
| OXPECKER | Either of two African starlings which obtain food from the hides of cattle (8) |
| PSALM | Song of starling starting in tree (5) |
| EVERLASTING | The day before starling went off for good (11) |
| MYNAH | Tropical Asian starling, some of which can mimic human speech (5) |
