| SPARROW | Bird whose British species include the house and tree |
| ORCHID | Plant whose British species include the bee, man, monkey and fly |
| NEWT | Semiaquatic creature whose British species include the great crested and palmate |
| MOTH | Insect whose British species include the six-spot burnet |
| CASCARA | Vehicle ploughs into Spanish house and tree |
| INDIA | Country from which snakes and ladders and chess originate whose native animal species include the blue peafowl, Bengal tiger and Asian elephant (5) |
| EUONYMUS | Genus of small trees and shrubs whose species include the spindle tree (8) |
| LOACH | Freshwater fish of the family Cobitidae whose species include the horseface, clown and kuhli (5) |
| TROUT | Fish whose species include the brown and rainbow |
| ANTELOPE | Ruminant animal whose species include the nilgai and blackbuck (8) |
| SPIDER | Invertebrate whose species include the redback and Goliath birdeater |
| PECCARY | Pig-like South American mammal also called the javelina; species include the collared and white-lipped (7) |
| CROSSANDRA | Genus of plants of Africa and Asia with large yellow, orange or lilac flowers whose species include the firecracker flower (10) |
| EELPOUT | Broad-headed fish whose species include the viviparous blenny |
| SQUID | Creature whose species include the world's largest invertebrate |
| ELAND | Animal whose species include the world's largest antelope |
| CRABS | Crustaceans, often found on seashores, whose species include the broad-clawed porcelain (5) |
| DOLPHIN | Mammal whose species include the common bottlenose |
| CLAM | Creature whose species include the world’s largest bivalve molluscs |
| DUCKS | Waterfowl whose species include the garganey, pochard, scaup etc. (5) |
