| MARSUPIAL | A mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother's belly |
| JEDI | In Star Wars, an Order whose members are guardians of justice (4) |
| LEONID | Nikita's suc-ces-sor |
| EMBRYOS | Incompletely developed unborn creatures (7) |
| SPEAR | Small fruit that's typically carried by actor in the background (5) |
| HALFBAKED | Incompletely developed |
| MACE | Ceremonial staff typically carried in the left hand |
| PRIMATE | Mammal of an order that includes apes, bushbabies, humans, lemurs, tarsiers, marmosets and monkeys ( |
| CHERUB | An angel of the second order whose distinctive gift is knowledge; or, in art, an amoretto or putto depicting such a being, traditionally in the form of a winged child (6) |
| RODENT | Mammal of an order that includes squirrels and beavers (6) |
| EDENTATE | Mammal of an order which includes sloths, anteaters and armadillos (8) |
| RODENTS | Mammals of an order characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws |
| PHILLYCHEESESTEAK | Regional meat and dairy order whose first word is formed by P + a synonym for "mountainous": 2 wds. (Theme answer: this answer is a sandwich, and the circled letters spell a fruit.) |
| WOOWOOSHOT | Bar order whose first two words are 2x a verb meaning "pursue romantically" and whose last word is a synonym for "attempt": 3 wds. |
| MONOTREME | Egg-laying mammal of the order whose only extant species are the platypus and the echidnas (9) |
| ALLUVIUM | Fine particles of silt. clay. mud and sand that are carried and deposited by rivers (8) |
| MASONIC | Order whose members included George Washington, Rudyard Kipling and Franz Liszt (7) |
| FRENCHTOAST | Breakfast order whose first word is the language spoken in Paris and whose second word anagrams to "stoat": 2 wds. (Theme answer: The relationship of the circled and uncircled letters is explained in |
| XIAOLONGBAO | Dim sum order whose first word is found by taking every other letter of "expirator" and whose second word is an English synonym for "lengthy": 3 wds. |
| OKAPI | A mammal of the giraffe family with stripes on its rump and legs (5) |
