| BIOTA | Animals, plants, fungi, etc. |
| NATURALHISTORYMUSEUM | Scientific institution housing collections of animals, plants, fungi etc (7,7,6) |
| SPORE | Minute, typically single-celled, reproductive unit produced by seedless plants, fungi etc. (5) |
| SMUTS | Plant fungi |
| GENERA | Classes of animals, plants etc |
| BLIGHT | A plant disease caused by fungi, etc (6) |
| NATURALHISTORY | Study of animals/plants |
| GLAND | Secreting structure in animals, plants (5) |
| XYLOPHAGOUS | Living in or feeding on wood; used of insects, crustaceans, fungi etc. (11) |
| ECOLOGY | Study of the relationship between animals, plants or peoples and their environment (7) |
| EXTINCTION | The complete loss of a species of animals, plants or people (10) |
| HABITATS | The natural environments of animals, plants or other organisms (8) |
| STOCK | Farm animals; plant |
| GIRAFFE | Browsing animal plants one flower in bloomer (7) |
| NATURE | All the animals, plants and other things that are not made by man (6) |
| MILDEW | Fungi growing on plants |
| LICHEN | Type of fungi found in alcoholic henna plants |
| NIA | Genus of wood-rotting fungi that produce small fruit bodies on driftwood, submerged timber, etc |
| ERGOT | Group of fungi such as that which grows on rye and related plants |
| YEAST | Substance used in brewing, etc., consisting of minute fungi (5) |