### Clue: Royal birds for doomed wolfsuckling (5)
### Answer: REMUS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: doomed wolfsuckling
  R(abbrev. for royal) + EMUS(flightless Aussie birds). 
Answer: In Roman mythology, one of the twins suckled by a wolf when young, and doomed to be killed by his twin in a dispute as to where to build a city.  The victor, Romulus named the city after himself, or was it the other way round?