| WISDOM | A body of experience-based knowledge, also called sapience; or, a group of wombats (6) |
| CONSCIENCE | Morality provides argument against evidence-based knowledge (10) |
| KOALAS | Cousins of wombats |
| RULEOFTHUMB | Experience-based guideline (4,2,5) |
| EXPERTISE | Experience-based skill |
| HUDDLE | A dense crowd or jumble; an impromptu secret conference; a close gathering of strategising sports players prior to a game; or, a group of penguins or walruses (6) |
| SCHOOL | Known in French as a manege, a type of arena for equestrianism; or, a group of artists sharing a similar style (6) |
| COLONY | Word, preserved in the name of Germany's "perfume city", for a plantation, settlement or territory; or, a group of ants, artists, bacteria, bats, Beaver Scouts or nudists (6) |
| GAGGLE | Collective noun for a group of geese, or a group of gossips (6) |
| CLAQUE | A body of hired applauders; or, a group of sycophantic supporters (6) |
| TRIGON | Old word for a three-sided polygon, such as an isosceles example; an ancient Greek or Roman lyre or harp; or, a group of three astrological signs belonging to the same element (6) |
| FAMILY | Social unit consisting of parents, their children and, formerly, servants; a taxonomic category; or, a group of similar musical instruments (6) |
| LITTER | Rubbish, or a group of mammals from a single birth (6) |
| CAST | To contrive or send forth a magical spell; a rigid plaster of Paris shell; the dramatis personae of a drama or play; a throw of dice or anything else; or, a group of bees, crabs or falcons (4) |
| COMBAT | A wombat when given a new start puts up a fight (6) |
| BOTTOM | A wombats main defense is its ___ which is made mostly of cartilage. |
| OGDOAD | Eight, or a group of eight |
| OBTUSE | Stupid wombats periodically take stuff (6) |
| PACE | From "stretch of the leg", a word for a stride; the distance covered; rate of progression; a step of a stair; gait of a horse; or, a group of donkeys (4) |
| ANIMAL | Capybara or wombat, e.g. |
