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5) is a 6 letter answer - sternum is 7

You are quite right Chris, back to the drawing board.

I've got an idea about the link word. Assuming it's an anagram of the last letter of each answer, and given the answers that we're reasonably sure of, it could be "norites". Norite is a type of rock, and norites squares with "humanist ideal".

Just looking in. When I first saw 5 I thought it might be a proper noun- Big Essex bird being big S with ex-bird (extinct?).
Also tried square (thinking quare might be obs. eccentic/bird), something a bishop must go over (on a chessboard).

Sorry- eccentric.

Could it be seeded.
Seeded fully grown =big
see which the bishop oversees
dd a bird with a big chest.

Where do you get the other E? Also thought of Sterna (tern genus), but doesn't seem to work.

Essex. Maybe, I give in. Is Ixion out for lunch with Jolan?

Norites looks good,so it has to finish with N or R ,I think?

senior?
SE + Robin minus B, backwards.