| GOANNA | Australian monitor lizard that features in Aborigine mythology (6) |
| NARRATIVE | A couple of royals in aborigine's account (9) |
| KOMODO | --- dragon, the largest species of monitor lizard (6) |
| IGUANA | Lizard that has had its day (6) |
| XANADU | Summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China; a city that features in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (6) |
| WEASEL | Animal that features in a pop song! (6) |
| SNOOPY | Fictional beagle that features in the Peanuts comic strip (6) |
| CAIMAN | Lizard that sounds like a group of Caribbean islands |
| GARDEN | Outdoor area for the cultivation of plants that features in its landscaped form an element such as a folly, grotto, eye-catcher, ha-ha or maze or a combination of such (6) |
| SURREY | Name of a horse-drawn vehicle that features in a Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune; or, the county home to Runnymede (6) |
| DRAINS | Underground structures/regions that feature in Mary Norton's The Borrowers Afloat or in the film Flushed Away (6) |
| HEROIN | Drug that features in Nico Walker's novel "Cherry" |
| HYPHEN | Short promotion by female that features in build-up |
| LETTER | Character that features in epistolary novel |
| GECKOS | Lizards that can walkon ceilings |
| UTSIRE | Name preceded by either North or South to form two sea areas that feature in the shipping forecasts |
| KOMODODRAGON | Indonesian monitor lizard (6,6) |
| LEGUAAN | Large monitor lizard such as the water ---, Varanus niloticus (7) |
| KOMODODRAGONS | Good monk takes road south, meandering to monitor lizards (6,7) |
| CAPEROCKGECKO | Small, stone-dwelling lizard that lives in South Africa (4,4,5) |
