| PRIMATES | Animals including apes and humans (8) |
| PILTDOWN | ___ Man, hoax skull once thought to be the missing link between apes and humans (8) |
| ANTHROPOIDS | Primates of the suborder containing apes and humans (11) |
| MISSINGLINK | The --- ---, a hypothetical animal formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and humans (7,4) |
| LANDSEER | Artist who painted animals including Newfoundlands, greyhounds, horses and, most notably, a royal Highland stag in his virtuoso piece The Monarch of the Glen (8) |
| RODENTIA | Genus of small gnawing animals including porcupines, rats and mice |
| IMITATOR | Old ape and old parrot? (8) |
| PEDAGOGY | The art of teaching ape and doggy to mingle (8) |
| APPARENT | The seeming tailless ape and its father or mother (8) |
| SEPARATE | You part with an ape and shed tears about it (8) |
| OPERETTA | Show ape and otter playing together |
| REDTIDES | Harmful algal blooms that often poison or kill wildlife and humans who consume contaminated seafood (3,5) |
| CHARLTONHESTON | Hollywood actor who starred in many films including "Ben-Hur" and "Planet of the Apes", and who also visited Deia, Mallorca in the 1960s (8,6) |
| OPHIR | Biblical land with "ivory and apes and peacocks" |
| FLESH | Substance between skin and bones of animals and humans (5) |
| EQUUS | A genus of animals including horses, donkeys and zebras (5) |
| CUBS | Young of animals including foxes, bears and lions (4) |
| BULL | Male of animals including the cow, bison and seal (4) |
| CALF | Young of animals including cow, elephant and rhinoceros (4) |
| SIMIANS | Monkeys, apes and such |
