| CAMELOPARD | Archaic name for a giraffe, taken from two animals it was thought to resemble (10) |
| WOLFRAM | An element from two animals (7) |
| SITE | Location of some animals, it emerges (4) |
| DEAR | Love animals, it is said (4) |
| SALEMRIVER | NICK WAS THOUGHT TO HAVE DROWNED IN IT (DAYS, two words) |
| BATTLESHIP | Bismarck, for one, was thought invincible in the main, only to go down in war like many another! (10) |
| SANDDOLLAR | Flat sea urchin thought to resemble a coin |
| OAK | According to tradition, what tree was associated with the god of thunder because it was thought to be the tree most likely to be hit by lightning? (3) |
| CHILDERMAS | Archaic name for feast Holy Innocents' Day, held on 28th December in the Western Church (10) |
| PETREL | Storm ___ , seabird so named because it was thought to be a harbinger of rough weather (6) |
| CELANDINE | Yellow wild flower once called pilewort as it was thought to be good for haemorrhoids (9) |
| EBONY | Dark wood once used for drinking cups, as it was thought to neutralize poison |
| PEA | Miniature cork ball in a whistle; old name for a bird in the genus Pavo known collectively as a muster; or, a podded vegetable whose original name was thought to be plural (3) |
| CIRCE | Mythical sorceress whose name is referred to in the Latin epithet of enchanter's nightshade, for it was thought by botanists to be used by the aforesaid spellbinder to bewitch Odysseus's companions (5 |
| CLARIONETS | Archaic name for single-reed woodwind instruments |
| SOLANGOOSE | An archaic name for the gannet |
| CAMETOMIND | Was thought of |
| COLUMBINE | From the Latin for "dove", the flower, "granny's bonnet", with petals reminiscent of a flock of five doves, whose original Latin name, Aquilegia, alludes to its hook-like spurs, thought to resemble an |
| COCO | A tropical beach palm whose name, meaning "grinning face", refers to the three marks on each of its large nut-like seeds, thought to resemble a grotesque face (4) |
| OWL | This nocturnal raptor with a distinctive call became symbolic of intelligence because it was thought that it presaged events. In Hamlet (act 4, scene 5), Ophelia says, "Well, God dild you! They say th |
