| INSECTIVORE | Animal such as a hedgehog or shrew |
| TENREC | Small Madagascan mammal resembling a hedgehog or shrew |
| TANKTRAP | A defence against armoured vehicles, also known as a hedgehog |
| QUILL | Feather used as a pen; spine of a hedgehog; or, a roll of cinnamon bark (5) |
| URCHIN | A ragamuffin or tatterdemalion; old word for a hedgehog; or, a spiny globular echinoderm of the sea (6) |
| SPINE | Heartwood of a tree; a quill of a hedgehog; or, courage (5) |
| SPINY | Like a hedgehog or porcupine |
| MAMMAL | Animal such as a whale or shrew (6) |
| QUAD | Meaning "four", a word used as a prefix in names of things including a courtyard, a 4 x 4 motorbike and a four-footed animal such as a horse; or, a serving of four shots of espresso (4) |
| FLIPPER | Flat limb of an aquatic animal such as a seal, turtle or dolphin; or, a lever in a pinball machine (7) |
| CLAW | Old English "iron hook", today's nail, pincer or talon of a bird or animal such as a bear, cat, crab, dog or rook (4) |
| PRICKLE | Group of hedgehogs or porcupines; or, another word for a thorn of a rose stem, cactus or thistle, for example (7) |
| SNOUTS | Word for animals' muzzles, birds' beaks or elephants' trunks originally, later for the more specific noses of beasts such as hedgehogs or pigs (6) |
| PRICKLES | Cacti, gorse, rose stems, thistles or urchins' barbs, needles, quills, thorns or tines; or, groups of tiggywinkles (aka hedgehogs) or arrays of porcupines (8) |
| BATTLEAXE | Scold or shrew (9) |
| PYGMY | Type of hippo or shrew |
| TROUT | Fish or shrew? (5) |
| ISH | Suffix with Finn or shrew |
| NAG | Carp or shrew? (3) |
| LAIR | Den of a wild animal such as a fox's earth or an otter's holt (4) |
