Birds.

[stuartshore]

Please can anyone help with the following :
9. Donned for a terminal sentence (8).
10. In the U.S. they hang it out to show solidarity with
the troops (6,7).
14. A communist complaint (3,6) red ??????.
22. Vigil for a dead puss. (9).
25. Cautiously, quietly takes the trunk route (11).
41. Riddled to have made an owl howl. But it
was jealous too. (5,10).
44. Any more for it ? Sadly not as many as once there were (7). Thanks again

[slaney]

9. Blackcap

[slaney]

10. Yellow Bunting

[tyrepill]

14 red grouse 10 Yellow Bunting

[slaney]

14. Red Grouse

[tyrepill]

22 Kittiwake

[slaney]

22. Kittiwake

[slaney]

25. Tree-creeper?

[tyrepill]

44 Skylark

[slaney]

41. Green Woodpecker

Riddle.."Why did the owl 'owl"?
Answer "Because the woodpecker would peck 'er"

[stuartshore]

thanks for all the answers...
I must have had too much christmas spirit and fuzzled my brain.
Just 44. To get more confident. But thanks tyrepill for the suggestion!

[spitza]

i think 44 is skylark an old cry any more for the skylark for trips on a boat

[tyrepill]

The phrase "anymore for the skylark"was often heard shouted by boat-owners offering trips around harbours and seaside resorts etc,years ago.Theres not so many now.Hope that explains my reasoning

[gen2]

The answer to 44 will certainly be 'skylark'. Earlier, I clicked on this question to give that as the answer but tyrepill had beaten me to it. tyrepill is correct.

It is obviously a 'generation thing' as I remember the cry well from my childhood visits to the seaside.

"there are not as many as there once were" could equally apply to the boatmen, and to the actual birds which are becoming scarcer.

[gen2]

Further to my comments above, I was perhaps exposed to the cry more than others as it was brighton Beach I used to visit. See this link:

http://www.buses.co.uk/history/fleethist/846fc .htm

[stuartshore]

thanks to tyepill and gen2 I now see the answer and reasoning. I wish you both a Happy new year and thanks again. Stuart.