| LAYANEGG | What a hen will do? Drop a bomb? (3,2,3) |
| LAY | What a good hen will do |
| DELAYED | Held up indeed what hen will do (7) |
| EGG | What a hen sits on in a nest |
| EGGS | What a hen provides for a horse, in certain ways? |
| LAYS | Does what a hen does |
| ROOST | Word for a perch for fowls; a group of said birds or bats resting together; a hen house; a sleeping-place; a Scottish garret or loft; a spar of a roof; or, an Orcadian tidal race (5) |
| OWLS | In an Edward Lear verse, what birds, along with larks, a hen and a wren, built their nests in a beard? (4) |
| LAYER | A stratum; one of the thicknesses of ingredients forming a lasagne, sandwich, tian or Victoria sponge, for example; a hen kept for her eggs; or, a garment worn over/under others (5) |
| EGGPLANT | What bloomin' yoke is this to bring to a hen party in a pot?! (8) |
| COOP | A hen house; a wicker basket for catching fish; or, a prison cell (4) |
| CLUCK | Make a sound like a hen (5) |
| OMEN | A sign for a hen party? |
| PULLET | What is a hen in its first year? (6) |
| BARMEN | People in pubs do this for a hen night (6) |
| AKHENATEN | A hen taken mistakenly for a Pharaoh? "Tut!" went his son, Tut (9) |
| COCKCROW | Could be a call from the other party when a hen party ends! (8) |
| BIRDS | Are they all of a flutter, perhaps, at a hen party? (5) |
| LAYINRUINS | As a hen would do when its henhouse had been demolished? |
| BIRDOFPREY | A sparrowhawk and a hen harrier fall into this category (4,2,4) |
