| XERIC | Adapted to a desert habitat |
| SAHARA | Vast desert habitat of North Africa (6) |
| SCAPEGOAT | Namely, animal to depart to a desert, finally? |
| ECOTYPE | Subspecies adapted to a particular habitat |
| COTTA | Act to be adapted to a surplice (5) |
| ARMADA | Pivotal yardarm adapted to a lot a ships (6) |
| ATACAMA | At a river in England, going on to a desert in South America (7) |
| TIMEINABOTTLE | Newsmagazine delivered to a desert isle? |
| JOJOBA | Josephine having task linked to a desert plant |
| SAHARAN | Related to a desert spanning across North Africa (7) |
| LILTS | Cheerful songs ill-adapted to a backstreet (5) |
| EROTICA | Hot stuff adapted to a rice (7) |
| XEROPHILOUS | Adapted to a dry environment |
| LANDCRAB | Any of various crabs of the tropical family Gecarcinidae that are adapted to a partially terrestrial |
| LESMISERABLES | Victor Hugo epic adapted to a hit musical (3,10) |
| UNADJUSTED | Not adapted to a French promotion, only partly edited |
| NATURALISED | Adapted to habitat and temperature in Ireland and USA somehow |
| FORSTER | English author whose novels A Passage to India, A Room with a View and Howard's End were adapted to film, the latter two noted here by James Ivory (7) |
| SEABIRD | General word for a vertebrate adapted to marine and coastal habits, such as a puffin, kittiwake, storm petrel, shearwater or Sabine's gull (7) |
| TENEMENT | A large building in Scotland constructed or adapted to be let in portions to many tenants (8) |
