| CHELONIAN | A terrapin, tortoise or turtle |
| RETALIATE | Aggressive tail a terrapin displays when about to strike back (9) |
| REPTILE | Scaly creeping or crawling ectotherm, such as a crocodile, lizard, snake, tortoise or turtle (7) |
| PLASTRON | Bony plate forming the ventral part of the shell of a tortoise or turtle (8) |
| FLIPPER | A paddle-like limb of a dolphin, penguin, seal or turtle; or, something reminiscent of this, such as a hand, a pinball arm or a swim fin (7) |
| CARAPACE | The shell of a tortoise or a turtle; or, any impenetrable outer layer (8) |
| ROOKERY | A group of the corvids known collectively as a storytelling, nesting high in a clump of trees; or, a colony of seabirds or marine mammals such as penguins, seals or turtles (7) |
| BEAK | A bird's rhamphotheca-covered bill; an octopus, squid or turtle's rostrum; a teacher at Eton; one's nose; or, a bucket's pouring lip (4) |
| SLOW | Like a tortoise or a snail |
| SCUTUM | Latin word for "shield" that refers to a large oblong Roman example of said piece of armour; a constellation; or, one of the protective plates of an armadillo, insect or turtle (6) |
| TURTLE | A tortoise-like marine chelonian named by English sailors; said terrapin's flesh, used for soup; or, an old name for a species of dove, symbolic of devoted or true love (6) |
| DOVE | Collared, rock, stock or turtle, a bird in the Columbidae family with pigeons, sometimes housed in a cote (4) |
| ANTEGG | Morsel for a pet fish or turtle |
| EGG | What a lizard or turtle hatches from |
| RACER | The tortoise or the hare |
| SLOWCOACH | Owls, bizarrely, train tortoise or snail? |
| AESOP | Greek writer of the fable of the hare and the tortoise or the fox and the grapes |
| OFHISSHELL | How tortoise or crab could become less shy? (4,3,2,3,5) |
| COMEOUT | How tortoise or crab could become less shy? (4,3,2,3,5) |
| OFITSSHELL | How tortoise or crab could become less shy? (4,3,2,3,5) |
