| CETE | A sea monster; a whale; or, from "assembly", a company of badgers (4) |
| BRIDOON | Mythical Highland village misses General Assembly a bit (7) |
| GATHERING | Assembly; a boil |
| CALF | A floating growler detached from a glacier/iceberg; a young buffalo, cow, elephant, giraffe, rhino, whale or other vituline specimen; or, old slang for a dolt or hobbledehoy (4) |
| LUCA | 2021 Disney film about a sea monster on the Italian Riviera (4) |
| BLOWER | An informal word for a braggart, a speaking tube, a telephone or a whale; or, a device for producing a blast of air, such as a fan (6) |
| PODS | Social groups of whales or dolphins; or. the cases of peas or vanilla seeds (4) |
| GILA | ____ monster, a large, venomous, brightly coloured lizard native to Mexico and the Southwestern U.S. (4) |
| NESS | Loch where a sea monster is said to live |
| NEMO | Captain whose vessel is first believed to be a sea monster |
| HAUL | Takings from assembly room picked up (4) |
| GRAY | *A type of whale or the color of many dolphins |
| SETT | Sounds like groups of badgers were at the tennis match (4) |
| RIDGE | From Old English for "spine, crest" and Dutch for "back", a long narrow hilltop or mountain range; or, the spine of a whale or other animal (5) |
| BULL | Male of the whale or elephant (4) |
| WILD | - Wood; home of Badger in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (4) |
| SPOUT | A teapot's pouring tube; a waterfall; the blowing of a whale; or, a gargoyle for channelling rainwater (5) |
| ORC | What is either a whale or a people-eating sea monster? (3) |
| ORCA | Whale or catfish caught (4) |
| CEDE | Collection of badgers |
