murder isn't out of the question

You’d have just caws, Jasdip

Hint for C1

Clarice and fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Hah, Roxsol! You got it! My comment was a hint, as you saw.

I am stuck on B4.

Never mind, I just got it. Good grief.

STILL stuck on those seven 'c's...🤔

Not obscure at all hint:

"STILL stuck on those seven 'c's."

Forget counting them, focus on what they are and how they are placed.

It's a good thing I'm comfortable with my answers, some of the above hints would have me thoroughly confused! Kudos to those of you able to come up with those hints! !

Rusty

Finally have D1 thanks to you all. i think I am 100% for the first time in a while.

I am terrible at clues, as I am always afraid I will give up too much.

Letters and others, for D4, this one has another, maybe more common name which might be throwing you. The name here is also known as it’s call.

A1 and D1 are solved the same way.

And they rhyme!

I hadn't realized that!

All these hints and still I haven’t a clue!

Don’t worry about it FOAS. You’ll get wrinkles and lines around your eyes.

The answer uses one of the two sounds "c" makes. Probably the other sound from what you have in your head.

Cicadas aren’t birds!

Neither is a sea lion (c line) as I kept telling my husband.😄

Haha I came up with sea lion, too!

Those c's are all in a _______.

Rusty

I've already solved all of them, but some of these clues do not help at all. I do not think that A1 and D1 rhyme, for instance. Roxsol's original hint for D1 solved that for me immediately, and that was the only one that gave me trouble..

I have no idea who Wendy, John and Michael are, but I got C1 as soon as I looked at it. They could be members of The Brady Bunch for all I know, since I have never seen that show, but that would not work as a clue. I can, however, think of an Andy Warhol star whose last name rhymes with C1, and I remember her especially from Flesh.

OK I think I understand the answer to D1 now, but it makes little sense to me as a clue.

All I could think of was sea lion too 😄

Lars, they are the children in Peter Pan.

eta I got C1 right away and all I could think of was the detective in

”Silence of the Lambs”

Yay.........I think I have them all, but will wait and see.

A1 would've been a lot easier if the circle had been a different, specific color.

I agree, Annie.

Rusty

OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(that’s the sound of me getting D1)

Haha, FOAS. With a ”cr” at the start, I hope!

^^^ took me a sec

Haha - watch that be the wrong answer...😄

Top row:
flamingo (flaming "0"),
swallow ("swal" low),
red-winged blackbird,
bluejay (blue" J")

Second row:
robin redbreast ("rob" in red "breast"),
cardinal ("card" in "al"),
condor ("C" on "dor"),
partridge (part "ridge")

Third row:
starling (star + L in "G"),
goldfinch (gold "F" in "ch"),
spoonbill ("spo" on "bill"),
toucan (two can)

Bottom row:
crow ("C" row"),
magpie ("MAG" pie),
nightingale ("night" in "gale",
bobwhite

(My little story about my neighbour that prompted a possible murder......a murder is a flock of crows, as you remember.

Haha - watch that be the wrong answer..

Haha carol! Then we’ll just have to eat crow.😆

I didn't get partridge and I should have. Got the rest.

I missed goldfinch. I just guessed finch.

Thanks, Jasdip. 🤠🦅

I missed the gold, too, and just had finch.

I am here to say I got them all! Partridge and Crow were last.

Flamingo and Crow do rhyme. Odd that.

I had cuckoo for A1 (cook+O), and so I missed that one, and this is why my answer did not rhyme with crow! I was thrown off by the "Chef Bobby" clue and thought the flames had to do with cooking.

Got them all but crow.

Well, clearly I need to brush up on my birds! I didn’t get starling or bobwhite, neither of which I’ve ever heard of; and flamingo never even occurred to me, but that’s pretty clever. These were fun!

I have to say that all of the clues left me scratching my head except for one — Jasdip’s murderous thoughts immediately led me to crow!

Rather chuffed that all were pretty easy for me - except that last one. Thanks for the clues, people ☺

And thanks for the game, Jasdip!

The last name of the children from Peter Pan: Wendy, John and Michael, was Darling, rhymes with starling.

If the O were pink in A1 then I'd think it'd been far easier.

I dont know why it took me so long to get crow. Just thankful I got 100%!

My clue for D4 referred to a bob white also being known as a quail which is what we always called them. The call of a quail sounds like ’bob white’.

I didnt understand the Chef Bobby clue but i already had my answer.

Thanks Jasdip for a cute puzzle.

bobby FLAY, MING dynasty. Flay-Ming-O.

I did not get flamingo even with the good clue. Yes pink would have been nice. I also didn't get Bob White although I've heard of the bird it didn't come to mind. I play along but generally don't do very well. They're still all fun. Thank you jasdip.

I got them all right, although D1 did take a little while. I've always enjoyed feeding and watching birds, and reading about them, so I guess that worked in my favor this time.

Most of the hints are far too 'obscure' for me, I have no idea who most of the people mentioned in them might be. But at least I know who 'Chef Bobby' is! And it still took me awhile to figure out how to make that Chef Bobby clue match my flamingo answer. I must have spent 30 minutes looking up the names of Bobby's restaurants, to see if any were named anything that could be connected to the bird or specialized in Chinese food. I was beginning to think my answer was wrong when it finally hit me.

This really was a fun puzzle, Jasdip, thanks!

Rusty

'Flaming O' was fairly easy for me.

We have tons of starlings here. Apparently a number of European birds were brought to N. America a long time ago by a fan of Shakespeare, who wanted to import all the birds mentioned in his works. Now most are pests, unfortunately.

I was actually thumbing through my Sibley's (THE bird book) for inspiration on the c's. but murder and Russell were more helpful in spite of no one actually calling a flock of crows a 'murder'. Partridge had me stymied until I said to my self part of a ridge then oh dud.

Carol, just by chance I was talking with someone about invasive plants brought over from Europe (garlic mustard and buckthorn) and they mentioned that starlings and sparrows are also "imports".

While Starlings are introduced only House Sparrows of the sparrow clan. We have lots of native Sparrows. Starlings were introduced by some nutty man who wanted to have all of Shakespeare's birds or something like that.

Speaking of invasive species, it seems that people are tossing their goldfish into the rivers and ponds and are rapidly taking over. They're a form of carp, which when get out of control are hard to eradicate. They destroy the vegetation and native fish need and are very prolific. So they'll soon outnumber other natural fish.

From yesterday morning’s newspaper😆

Ha! Made me think of this Sparrow!