| SEDENTARY | Still a nest: drey? (9) |
| CAGE | Word for a hollow that came to mean a basket for fowls, a bottle-holder, a coop, a corf, a hutch, a netted goal, a prison cell or a squirrel's drey (4) |
| TWIG | Small branch used for kindling, propping a top-heavy hyacinth in a pot or to form a drey by a squirrel (4) |
| MARESNEST | In allusion to something, such as a filly's drey, that doesn't exist, a term for a supposedly worthwhile but illusory discovery; or, a clutter, fuddle, jumble or nide-like muddle (5-4) |
| SQUIRREL | Animal with a drey as a nest (8) |
| NEST | A squirrel's drey, e.g. (4) |
| TWIGS | Small woody shoots used by a squirrel to build its drey (5) |
| NESTER | An animal, bird or creature distinguished by its nidification of a bink, cage, drey, eyrie, formicary, hive, vespiary, wurley or other nidus (6) |
| YIELDER | The producer of drey, Eli (7) |
| VISOR | Eye protection used e.g. when drey poking (5) |
| HELMET | Head protection when e.g. drey-poking squirrels (6) |
| SOL | So a pound is still a note! (3) |
| ATREST | Still a quiz includes references, for a start |
| STEVEN | A good man ? still a man (6) |
| STATIONARY | Still a place to board a railway (10) |
| INDIAN | A famous motorbike Ian! Still a racket! |
| UPON | A preposition taking an adverb is still a superior preposition (4) |
| INTIMATELY | Favoured still a US college from the south occupied by lecturer in a familiar way (10) |
| RAIL | A track with no tempo's still a track (4) |
| AMISS | A wife ___ effectively French girlfriend ___ enthralling student? It's still a failure (1,4,2,2,4,2,1,4) |
