| 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) |
| PHYLUM | A taxonomic rank in biology below kingdom and above class (6) |
| TRIBE | A taxonomic rank in which names are suffixed with "ini" or "eae" (5) |
| GOPHER | Burrowing American rodent with a short tail and fur-lined cheek pouches; family Geomyidae, several genera and species (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 |
| FORM | Subdivision of a taxonomic species ranking below a variety, usually marked by trivial differences such as colour (4) |
| SHRIKE | Alternative name for the butcherbird; family Laniidae, numerous genera and species (6) |
| LAUNCE | Popular name for the sand eel; family Ammodytidae: several genera and species (6) |
| 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) |
| HEDERA | - helix ; worn as a crown by god of the grape-harvest Dionysus and supporting some 50 species including the blackbird, the Latin name of the native British woodland plant ivy (6) |
| REEF | Coral ecosystem such as the world's largest inhabited by thousands of species including the blue tang, clownfish and dugong (4) |
| PITTA | From the Greek for "cake or pie", a hollow oval "pocket" of flatbread for a filling; or, a colourful tropical bird with species including Elegant, Fairy, Graceful and Rainbow (5) |
