| WILLIAMSON | Author of the novel Tarka the Otter (10) |
| HENRY | Author of the novel Tarka the Otter (5,10) |
| OTTER | Classic wildlife novel, Tarka the ... |
| JEFFERIES | Naturalist noted for his depiction of rural life in works including Bevis, The Open Air and Tarka the Otter author Henry Williamson's favourite book The Story of My Heart (9) |
| USTINOV | Peter -; actor in a number of films including Spartacus and Death on the Nile who also narrated Tarka the Otter (7) |
| TUNNICLIFFE | Wildlife illustrator who was a major contributor to the RSPB magazine Bird Notes and provided artwork for Henry Williamson's books including Tarka the Otter (11) |
| TAW | Devon river and setting for Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter (3) |
| JAGUARUNDI | Small, unspotted New World cat, also known as the otter-cat because of its otterlike appearance and swimming ability. |
| MINK | Animal in the same family as the otter and the ferret |
| TARKA | Thanks to the building of an ark, we have the otter |
| ERIE | Home of the Otters of the Ontario Hockey League |
| BADGER | A burrowing animal of the otter and weasel family (6) |
| LOTTIE | ___ the Otter ("Winnie the Pooh" character) |
| KOI | What the otter ate in the Chinese Garden in Vancouver in 2018 |
| BADGERS | Burrowing animals of the otter or weasel family (7) |
| GAVIN | Scottish naturalist who introduced us to Mijbil the otter in Ring Of Bright Water, ... Maxwell |
| THERETO | He gets the otter to swim around to that (7) |
| TORTOISE | Creature, a duck, the otter is swimming round (8) |
| RAZORWITTED | Sharp thinking wizard casting a spell on the otter (5,6) |
| HEANEY | Seamus -; poet whose collection Field Work includes Oysters, The Otter and sequence Glanmore Sonnets (6) |
