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Across 6 Distracted birder superbly (and correctly) identifies ground-dweller (6,8) 9 Group of waterbirds could bring some cygnets to us (6) 10 Wader migrations perhaps involving cases of offhand yelps and some yaps (8) 11 City dweller flying over dock (4,4) 13 A troubling thing to do with feathers (6) 15 Neither fog nor damp restrict this bird returning (6) 17 Preparing to dump a good point for buttonquails (6) 19 Minor group of eagles (seriously?) (6) 20 Cut indecision, removing sides of dovecote (8) 22 Fast reading seabirds? (8) 24 Dashed hope, then live American tyrantflycatcher appeared (6) 26 Ribbon thrown wildly and semi-well catches a bird of the under-storey (5,9)
Down 1 Indonesian rainforest bird (or a kosher copy we’d arranged) (4,10) 2 Bridge across the wings (4) 3 Stop rest of flock circling like magic (6) 4 Brazilian passerine wastes energy trapping gutless wonder (4,4) 5 The old one-two bird? (4) 7 Pooled around and circled back (6) 8 Loony Labor slip upset a long-legged regal (5,9) 12 You’ll find shorebirds at this rate (5) 14 Not what you’d expect initially from fulmars and kittiwakes, even skuas? (5) 16 Birders’ clothing – perhaps strange to include a size M option (8) 18 It would be a big mistake using the Mafia’s count of shorebirds (6) 21 They really can’t be headless chooks! (6) 23 Imitates gulls in a stable arrangement (4) 25 Hearing a parrot, I could trap it (4)
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Across 6 Distracted birder superbly (and correctly) identifies ground-dweller (6,8) 9 Group of waterbirds could bring some cygnets to us (6) 10 Wader migrations perhaps involving cases of offhand yelps and some yaps (8) 11 City dweller flying over dock (4,4) 13 A troubling thing to do with feathers (6) 15 Neither fog nor damp restrict this bird returning (6) 17 Preparing to dump a good point for buttonquails (6) 19 Minor group of eagles (seriously?) (6) 20 Cut indecision, removing sides of dovecote (8) 22 Fast reading seabirds? (8) 24 Dashed hope, then live American tyrantflycatcher appeared (6) 26 Ribbon thrown wildly and semi-well catches a bird of the under-storey (5,9)
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Down 1 Indonesian rainforest bird (or a kosher copy we’d arranged) (4,10) 2 Bridge across the wings (4) 3 Stop rest of flock circling like magic (6) 4 Brazilian passerine wastes energy trapping gutless wonder (4,4) 5 The old one-two bird? (4) 7 Pooled around and circled back (6) 8 Loony Labor slip upset a long-legged regal (5,9) 12 You’ll find shorebirds at this rate (5) 14 Not what you’d expect initially from fulmars and kittiwakes, even skuas? (5) 16 Birders’ clothing – perhaps strange to include a size M option (8) 18 It would be a big mistake using the Mafia’s count of shorebirds (6) 21 They really can’t be headless chooks! (6) 23 Imitates gulls in a stable arrangement (4) 25 Hearing a parrot, I could trap it (4)
