| REYNARD | A name for a fox in European folklore (7) |
| GRAPE | Fruit for a fox in a fable |
| WREN | Troglodytes troglodytes, known in European folklore as the King of Birds (4) |
| CHARLIE | A code word; a name for a fox; or, a Vandyke-like beard (7) |
| BATEMAN | He played a fox in Zootopia and a Byrde in Ozark |
| TALLYHO | I've seen a fox in house after match (5-2) |
| COTTAGE | Word, derived from a medieval term for a one-roomed peasant dwelling or a name for a dove-house, for a small country dwelling (7) |
| MAHATMA | In Hinduism, a name for a Brahmin sage meaning Great Soul (7) |
| STADIUM | A name for a sports or concert venue, derived from a Greek word meaning the length of 600 feet (7) |
| MAMILLA | Diminutive form of the Latin word for "breast", a name for a nipple in English |
| FORMICA | What is a name for a laminated composite material, and a genus of ants? (7) |
| ANATOLE | As a name for a man, "Leo" is odd (7) |
| CANASTA | Actors adopt a name for a game (7) |
| SPANIEL | Talk about a name for a dog (7) |
| HORATIO | Nelson had such a name for a style of hair, too (7) |
| THERESA | Yonder's a name for a woman (7) |
| RUSSIAN | ___ mulberry, a name for a Morus alba variety (7) |
| CRIMEAN | Atrocity, a name for a war |
| SEAFRET | A name for a misty fog rolling inland from an ocean (3,4) |
| PUG | An old word for a fox; an informal name for a boxer; an animal's footprint; or, a little carlin with a curled tail and a wrinkled face, whose snorts and snuffles inspired its collective name "grumble" |