| RUFF | Type of sandpiper with unusual courtship plumage, or pleated collar |
| REDSHANK | Type of sandpiper |
| RARA | A very short gathered or pleated skirt (2-2) |
| FOLDED | Creased or pleated |
| SPECKLE | Spot of contrasting colour on a bird's egg or plumage or the coat of an English Setter, for example (7) |
| ERYTHRISM | Congenital condition of abnormal or excessive redness in an animal's fur, plumage or skin (9) |
| PAVONINE | Word meaning "peacock-like", as in the colours, iridescence or showiness of its plumage or eye-spotted train (8) |
| PARROT | Bird with bright plumage, or repeat without thought (6) |
| KNOT | A northern sandpiper, with short legs and grey winter plumage (4) |
| GREENSHANK | Long-legged sandpiper with greyish plumage (10) |
| SCRUFF | Lawyer attaching pleated collar at back of neck |
| HACKLES | A cockerel's raised neck plumage; or, fly-fishing feathers (7) |
| DUNLIN | Small sandpiper with a brown back and black breast in summer |
| LIN | A sandpiper with a curved bill (6) |
| DUN | A sandpiper with a curved bill (6) |
| ROUGHHEWN | Pleated collar, say, when terribly crudely made |
| TURNSTONE | Relative of sandpiper, named for how it seeks food |
| REEVE | The female ruff, a kind of sandpiper (5) |
| WHYNOT | Report of sandpiper on river, naturally! |
| OWL | A nightbird, such as the autumn-hooting territorial "tawny" named for its fulvous plumage; or, alluding to said "Billy Hooter's" nocturnal lifestyle, a nighthawk, as opposed to a lark (3) |
