| PIPISTRELLE | Britain's smallest bat, having common, soprano and Nathusius' species (11) |
| BARBASTELLE | Insectiverous forest bat having a wrinkled face and prominent ears (11) |
| BAT | A "hand-winged" chiropteran, such as Nathusius' pipistrelle which migrates some 1,500 miles despite its diminutive 5-6 cm size; or, a paddle for playing Ping-Pong (3) |
| STICKLEBACK | Britain's smallest freshwater fish (11) |
| CLACKMANNAN | Former county town of Britain's smallest historic county (11) |
| GOLDCRESTED | Coddler gets to be set up like Britain's smallest birds (4,7) |
| HAROLDDARKE | ____'s arrangement of In the Bleak Midwinter has soprano and tenor solos for two of the four verses |
| INTERESTGROUP | Social group involved in some activity and having common aims (8,5) |
| PTARMIGAN | Snow-white in winter, grey in summer and breeding in the mountains of the Scottish Highlands, Britain's smallest grouse species (9) |
| HEINOUS | Man with a first having common sense? That's terrible (7) |
| INGENIOUS | One having common sense about information - then one becomes clever |
| INTHESAMEBOAT | Having common problems (2,3,4,4) |
| NERVOUS | Hesitantly five having common sense going round in a jumpy state (7) |
| FELLOWFEELING | Don had to be conscious of having common interests (6-7) |
| GENETIC | Information to cite about having common origin |
| NATION | Very large group of people having common descent or history (6) |
| ETHNIC | Relating to a group having common cultural traditions (6) |
| AKIN | Having common ancestors |
| PYGMY | - shrew; protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, one of Britain's smallest mamma |
| SISKIN | With a distinctive forked tail, a garden bird resembling a cross between a greenfinch and a serin that is one of Britain's smallest finches (6) |
