| PRATCHETT | Author of the novels The Fifth Elephant and The Carpet People (9) |
| TERRY | Author of the novels The Fifth Elephant and The Carpet People (9) |
| NAST | Cartoonist who popularized the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey |
| NESBIT | Novelist who wrote The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children (6) |
| ENESBIT | British writer whose children's books include The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children |
| LARGEEARS | Features of elephants and Prince Charles |
| AXMINSTER | The carpet is to take across to the church (9) |
| TIMESTAMP | I mark the moment the paper is on the carpet - picked up quietly (4-5) |
| BEATINGIT | Cleaning the carpet and leaving (7,2) |
| DRUGUSERS | Dogberry put on the carpet by employers who are hooked (4,5) |
| HEARTHRUG | Listen to ruffian right to be included on the carpet (6,3) |
| IVORY | The hard, smooth variety of dentine that makes up a major part of the tusks of elephants and walruses (5) |
| DRSEUSS | Creator of Horton the Elephant and Yertle the Turtle |
| LAOS | Nation once known as the Kingdom of the Million Elephants and White Parasol |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general who caught the Romans off-guard by crossing the Alps into Italy with his army of 30,000 soldiers, 37 elephants and 15,000 horses (8) |
| TUSKS | Pointed, elongated teeth in the elephant and walrus (5) |
| CALF | Young of animals including cow, elephant and rhinoceros (4) |
| HIPPO | Third-largest land mammal, after the elephant and rhino |
| KNOTTING | Word for the art or craft of tying; the loops tied; the carpets, fancywork macrame, rugs etc produced; the covering of knags in wood before priming/glossing; or, the sealer used (8) |
| BABAR | Kid lit elephant and partner of Celeste |
