| AYEAYE | A long-fingered lemur that inhabits Madagascar (3,3) |
| SIFAKA | Lemur that may be silky or crowned (6) |
| AYEAYES | Long-fingered lemurs of Madagascar |
| MOMO | Winged lemur that hangs out with Aang, in "Avatar: The Last Airbender" |
| CHOUGH | A large black bird with a downward-curving red bill that inhabits sea cliffs and mountains (6) |
| MUDHEN | A variety of water bird that inhabits marshy places (3,3) |
| THORNY | ___ devil, reptile that inhabits the deserts of Australia (6) |
| KOMODO | ___ dragon, largest living lizard species that inhabits the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia (6) |
| NEKTON | Aquatic free-swimming animals that inhabit the middle depths of a sea |
| TSETSE | Large biting flies that inhabit much of tropical Africa (6) |
| NYMPHS | Goddesses that inhabit mountains, water, trees (6) |
| DRYADS | Nymphs that inhabit trees (6) |
| HERMITCRAB | A soft-bodied crustacean that inhabits a mollusc shell (6,4) |
| ORANGETIP | Feeding on cuckooflower and garlic mustard during its larval stage, a butterfly species emerging around April that inhabits a range of rural habitats (6,3) |
| HAMADRYAD | In classical mythology, a class of nymph that inhabits a tree (traditionally an oak or poplar) and dies with it (9) |
| IBIS | Long-legged wading bird that inhabits wetlands, forests and plains (4) |
| NESSIE | Informal term for a creature who supposedly inhabits a specific Scottish loch (6) |
| SYLVAN | Inhabits a wood (6) |
| DIPPER | Bird resembling a large wren which inhabits fast-flowing streams (6) |
| CHIFFCHAFF | A small olive-brown warbling bird with dark legs that inhabits parks and woodland (10) |
