just a bit of fun

Better answer for 12. Not a cock - Ladybird Lady_Bird.

I think that as separate words have been indicated in the clues it would have been (1,7) for 'a chicken'.

Think you're right about sparrow though - good one!

12. A chicken? Or would that only count as 9 or 7?

Could 11 Fight and argue be Sparrow Spar_Row?

Re no 17, high jinx. I've been thinking hard about this one. A rather tenuous answer could be the wryneck. 'High' seems to suggest a bird anyway. The wryneck is a type of ground feeding woodpecker, coming here on migration in the autumn. I looked it up and it is associated with putting a jinx on something. So a possibility...?
Could we please have the animals?

Yes please can we have the animals?

we are doing well GNs

just a recap of the answers we have so far

1.insect on a village green.................cricket
2.Bovine postman.............................cowpat
3.communist flyer.............................red kite
4.sounds like a wedding route.............Bridle path
5.Tom Jones sang about this...............green green grass
6.untidy bird or wild flower.................ragged robin
7.second class walk...........................B.ramble
8.perhaps member of a crew...............water boatmen
9.its painful on a foot.........................Acorn
10.US soldier seems happy..................Fun Gi
11.fight and argue..............................??
12.Not a cock.....................................??
13.An East Anglian hit..........................suffolk punch
14.Type of fund perhaps......................Hedge
15.Sideless old TV soap.......................Brook(side)
16.High Jinx......................................??
17.Beef Network.................................Cattle Grid
18.Overeat........................................Gorge
19.Find this in antheaps.......................Pheasant
20.Blooms in a rage............................Wild flowers.

we have 3 to find,just re read my mag and we have to wait until February for the answers
Shall I post the cryptic animals next..
Hope you are enjoying this as much as I am xx

Bella

Snap joy. !!

5. Wild flowers

2. Cattle grid

2: Cattle grid ...?

3: Pheasant (anagram)...?

4 gorge?

no have some more for you..

1.high jinx (7)
2.beef network (6,4)
3.find this in ant heaps (8)
4.overeat (5)
5.blooms in a rage (4,7)

some of them are quite cryptic

have some cryptic animals next

The only thing I can come up with for No. 1 is 'wrangle' - to round up or herd livestock. But it is a North American term

Any more questions/clues downtoearth or do we have to get all the rest first?

I am stuck on that one also...I might have to go for a country walk

I was thinking of moorhen but that's only 7 letters as well...

Oh no it's henbane so only 7 letters....

Hensbane?

1 Cricket
2 Cow Pat
3 Red kite
4 ?
5 Green green grass.

3: Suffolk Punch. (a horse)

4: hedge

I am struggling with number 3,.....but have come up with water boatmen B.ramble is a good answer...and number, 5 I had fungi..

have some more to stretch the grey matter

1.fight and argue (7)
2.not a cock (8)
3.An East Anglian hit (7,5)
4.a type of fund perhaps (5)

5.sideless old TV show (5)

all from a walk in the country...