| HAMMERHEAD | A type of shark that derives its name from its flattened and laterally extended front (10) |
| MAKO | Type of shark that can hit 45 mph |
| HAMMERHEADSHARK | Any large predatory fish of the family Sphyrnidae, noted for their laterally extended heads (cephalofoils) (10,5) |
| DEPRESSED | Flattened, and feeling down (9) |
| HONESTY | White or purple-flowered European plant cultivated for its flattened silvery seed pods (7) |
| LOAN | The sort of shark that mangled Nola? (4) |
| STAGBEETLE | UK's largest coleopteran and one that derives its name from the antler-like mandibles of its males (4,6) |
| KNOT | Lovers' bond; a lump of toads; a nest of snakes; a tangle of threads; a twist of fate; a woven tapestry of herbs; or, a sandpiper that derives its name from a king whose royal wave failed to stop the |
| RINGLET | A corkscrew- or spiral-shaped curl of hair; a fairy dance in a circle; or, a velvety brown butterfly that derives its name from its small eye-spots (7) |
| BATH | From Germanic meaning "to warm", a word for a hot tub or hammam; or, a spa city in England that derives its name from its hot springs (4) |
| PAPER | Writing material that derives its name from its ancient Egyptian plant of origin; a broadsheet; or, an essay (5) |
| THEHUSTLER | 1961 film starring Paul Newman as a pool shark that had a sequel 25 years later: 2 wds. |
| TROPHY | Prize that derives its name from a type of victory memorial in ancient Greece or Rome, often the weapons of a defeated army (6) |
| BLUISH | Teal is a ___ green color that derives its name from a duck with a colorful stripe on the side of its head |
| TAM | Short word for a woollen cap that derives its name from that of a hero in a poem by Robert Burns (3) |
| FLAMINGO | Wader that derives its pink colour from its diet of shrimp and its name from Latin for a visible part of fire (8) |
| ESCOLAR | Type of snake mackerel that derives its name from the rings around its eyes, thought suggestive of an academic's spectacles (7) |
| STARLING | A protective piling acting as a breakwater around a bridge pier; or, a gregarious iridescent murmuration- forming bird that derives its name from the "etoile" it is imagined to resemble when in flight |
| NUTHATCH | Known collectively as a booby and often occupying an old nest hole of a woodpecker, a "mud dabbler" in the genus Sitta that derives its main name from hacking at acorns, beech mast, cobs and other ker |
| WORSTED | Type of cloth that derives its name from a village in Norfolk (7) |
