| FAMILY | A household's collective kith and kin living together as a social unit; or, a taxonomic rank such as Rosaceae comprising thousands of genera and species including apples and roses (6) |
| TITLE | Appellation of rank such as such as lord or lady; a chapter-heading; the name of a book, newspaper etc, or the publication itself (5) |
| NONCOMMISSIONED | Describing an officer in the armed forces with a rank, such as corporal, who used to have a lower rank (3,12) |
| QUEENSKNIGHT | Man of first rank, such as Raleigh |
| MACAW | Any long-tailed, brightly-coloured parrot of genera including Ara and Anodorhynchus, native to tropical America (5) |
| RUTIN | Flavonoid found in many plants, including apples and buckwheat |
| MICRONESIA | A subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the Western Pacific Ocean (10) |
| GOPHER | Burrowing American rodent with a short tail and fur-lined cheek pouches; family Geomyidae, several genera and species (6) |
| COHORT | A unit of the ancient Roman army - or a taxonomic rank (6) |
| PEYTON | Author of a number of books for children and young people, including Apple Won't Jump, Fly-by-Night, A Pattern of Roses, The Scruffy Pony as well as her classic Flambards novels that were adapted to s |
| PHYLUM | A taxonomic rank in biology below kingdom and above class (6) |
| SHRIKE | Alternative name for the butcherbird; family Laniidae, numerous genera and species (6) |
| TRIBE | A taxonomic rank in which names are suffixed with "ini" or "eae" (5) |
| LAUNCE | Popular name for the sand eel; family Ammodytidae: several genera and species (6) |
| FORM | Subdivision of a taxonomic species ranking below a variety, usually marked by trivial differences such as colour (4) |
| DOMAIN | The highest taxonomic rank in binomial nomenclature; a sphere of knowledge; or, in computing, a set of network addresses identified by a common name (6) |
| ORDER | In biology, a taxonomic group ranking below a class and above a family (5) |
| GENUS | A taxonomic group of lower rank than a family in biology (5) |
| HOMINID | Member of a taxonomic family that includes humans and great apes (7) |
| LONGHORN | Name given to a breed of cattle and species of beetle (8) |
