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Birds

by Chalicea

Most of the solutions in this crossword are birds.

Across

7 Popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet (6)

8 Nilaus afer is a member of the bushshrike family found in much of sub-Saharan Africa, It is the only member of the genus Nilaus (6)

9 A sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere (4)

10 At close quarters, dealing with matters very frankly and firmly (3,2,3)

11 Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting its head (7)

13 Accipiter virgatus, a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae (5)

15 One of a genus of hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax (5)

16 Mottled buff and white bird often inhabiting barns and other structures; important in rodent control (4,3)

18 Migratory American songbird (8)

19 Myadestes obscurus, the Hawaiian thrush, a species of robin-like bird that is only found on the island of Hawaii (4)

21 Large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish (6)

22 To come to rest, settle (6)

Down

1 Any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects (4)

2 An area where birds or animals forage for food (7,6)

3 Ask for or request earnestly (7)

4 Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (5)

5 Small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae) (8,5)

6 Corvus tristis occurs all over the huge island of New Guinea (4,4)

12 Renewal of a solemn promise (8)

14 Common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery (7)

17 One of a genus of brilliantly coloured, chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills (5)

20 Feel physical pain (4)

Here is last week’s solution:

Words of Sappho of Lesbos (Quoted in the New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations) are, ‘Of air are the words I speak, … yet they are fair and lovely.’ The words ‘song’, ‘aria’, ‘mien’, ‘publicise’, ‘madrigal’, and ‘serenade’ are forms of ‘air’.

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