AVIAN ADVENTURE
Credit: LA Times Crossword - August 10, 2008
Stanley B. Whitten (#1-8)

Each clue below can be answered with a name, word, or phrase containing the name of a bird:

1. Thanksgiving Day race
2. Carpentry joint
3. Architect of Westminster Abbey
4. Con game involving "bait and switch"
5. Lawyer, informally
6. Type of athletic tournament
7. Crop guardian
8. Harassed, nagged about little things
9. One who stays up late
10. Repeat or mimic, as speech
11. Heavy equipment at a construction site
12. Bird present at every meal

Answers:

1. Turkey trot
2. Dovetail
3. Christopher Wren
4. Pigeon drop
5. Legal eagle
6. Round robin
7. Scarecrow
8. Henpecked
9. Night owl
10. Parrot
11. Crane
12. Swallow