### Clue: Flash Gordon, flyer (6)
### Answer: DRONGO 
 ### Explanation: Definition: flyer
GORDON* – the drongo is "a songbird with glossy black plumage and typically a long forked tail and a crest, found in Africa, southern Asia, and Australia", though the word is perhaps more familiar as Australian slang for a stupid person. Flash as in "fancy" for the nicely-appropriate anagram indicator