| 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) |
| KALAMATA | Messinian capital whose local delicacies include figs, honey-sesame bars, raisins, wild herbs and, most notably, its eponymous aubergine-coloured almond-shaped olives (8) |
| BICKER | Scots term for a wooden bowl for liquor or a staved vessel for porridge; a mischievous dash or quick scamper; a clattering noise; most notably, an altercation, petty squabble, quarrel or wrangle; or, |
| EATON | Shirley, actress who was most notably painted gold in a 1964 James Bond film (5) |
| PICASSO | Artist who created a series of minimalistic line drawings of animals including dog, owl and mouse (7) |
| EQUUS | A genus of animals including horses, donkeys and zebras (5) |
| QEII | Royal who's notably a crossword fan, for short |
| APSE | Recess in a church, there are many in Mallorca but notably a semi-circular one in the Iglesia de Sant Nicolau in Palma with a hexagonal belltower within it (4) |
| EPHEMERAL | Word, from the Greek for "lasting only a day", for something fugacious, momentary, short-lived or transient, such as a bubble, cherry blossom, fashion or sunset, or, most notably, the green-drake whic |
| KIT | Dancing-master's pocket violin or pochette; a flock of pigeons; a basket for holding fish; or, the offspring of animals including the ferret, mink, rabbit and squirrel (3) |
| FOOD | Mosquitoes are a reliable source of ___for thousands of animals, including birds, bats, dragonflies, and frogs |
| ALLALONGTHE | Bob Dylan composition covered by numerous artists, most notably Jimi Hendrix, ...Watchtower (3,5,3) |
| GAMEKEEPER | Person employed to protect an estate's wild animals including pheasants and deer (10) |
| BOAR | Male of many animals including the pig, hedgehog and badger (4) |
| CALF | Young of many animals including the cow, elephant, rhinoceros and whale (4) |
| SOW | Female of animals including the bear, badger, hedgehog and mink (3) |
| KITS | The young of animals including squirrels, rabbits and ferrets; or, dancing master's violins (4) |
| BULL | Male of animals including the cow, bison, whale, elephant, rhino and seal (4) |
| RODENTIA | Genus of small gnawing animals including porcupines, rats and mice |
| BUCK | The male of animals including the roe deer and rabbit (4) |
