| BARNSWALLOW | Bird of the species "Hirundo rustica" |
| SWALLOW | Any migratory swift-flying songbird of the family Hirundinidae, especially the widespread Hirundo rustica (7) |
| SWALLOWS | What fast-moving migratory songbirds, Hirundo rustica, have long pointed wings and a forked tail? (8) |
| RUSTICA | Hirundo ___ (Scientific name of the Barn Swallow, an 'aerial insectivore' bird found across Canada) |
| EMPEROR | This star of the National Geographic film, March Of The Penguins, is the largest of the species |
| GIRAFFE | Karamoja, a region of Uganda where Chester Zoo conservationists are working to protect the Rothschild ___ species; it was also the name chosen for the gangly six foot tall baby of the species born at |
| WELCOMESWALLOW | Hirundo neoxena, a herald of spring in southern Australia (7, 7) |
| GNOME | Name one of the species of diminutive beings said to inhabit the interior of the earth (5) |
| GEESE | Birds of the duck family, the Greylag, Whitefronted and Bean of the species arrive in Mallorca in the winter, usually in family groups (5) |
| EGRET | White heron, the Little of the species is a frequent bird of passage in Mallorca and is commonly seen in flocks on the island (5) |
| TOOTHANDNAIL | "But the she-bear thus acoosted rends the peasant ___ _ _, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male": Rudyard Kipling (5,3,4) |
| COMMONTERN | Sterna hirundo (6,4) |
| DERE | Classic Latin work "___ Rustica" |
| TORTA | ___ rustica (Italian dish) |
| RUSTICOLA | Loca rustica incolit, ut agricola agros incolit |
| ARCADIA | Dei Panos habitatio, regio rustica mediae Graeciae |
| URBANA | Vita ____ aut rustica? Town or country life? |
| KIPLING | Author of Kim and Gunga Din who wrote the line: "For the female of the species is more deadly than t |
| BIRTHPLACE | The only place for new deliveries of The Origin of the Species (10) |
| DARWINIAN | Relating to the theory of the origin of the species (9) |
