| MANX | Bread of cat with a naturally occurring mutation that shortens the tail (4) |
| INBORN | With a naturally inherent talent, Bro gyrated in the inn (6) |
| SCUT | Bend and shorten the tail (4) |
| CURTAIL | Shorten the tail on a dog (7) |
| ROCK | Igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary, a naturally occurring material studied in geology and petrology (4) |
| NEEM | Oil that's a naturally occurring pesticide |
| ETAL | Phrase that shortens a list of people: 2 wds. |
| HILL | A naturally raised area of land (4) |
| HIRUDIN | A naturally-occurring peptide in the salivary glands of medicinal leeches that has a blood anticoagulant property |
| ABYSSINIAN | A variety of cat with a long body and a short brown coat with black or dark brown markings (10) |
| GAMBIT | Move that shortens the game a little? |
| CARBONSINK | The element we're increasingly nervous about as global temperatures rise is captured in this kind of chemical trap - a forest or an ocean is a naturally occurring form (6,4) |
| MINERAL | The name for a naturally occurring solid with a definite chemical composition and a highly ordered atomic arrangement. |
| SIAMESE | Short-haired breed of cat with a tapering tail, blue eyes and dark ears (7) |
| RUSSIANBLUE | Breed of cat with a silver-blue coat (7,4) |
| POLYMER | A naturally occurring or synthetic compound that has large molecules made up of many repeated units (7) |
| ASPEROUS | This sempervivum variety is a naturally occurring solid object, smaller than a planet, orbiting the sun (8) |
| RAGDOLL | A breed of cat with a silky or semi-longhair coat and blue eyes noted for placidity (7) |
| CORNISH | --- Rex, breed of cat with a very soft wavy coat, a small head and very large ears (7) |
| ICEAXES | Excise a mutation that be a help, up and down glaciers (3,4) |
