| TRUMAN | Brown coats unusual for top Democrat (6) |
| STOATS | Small, weasel-like mammals with brown coats and black-tipped tails (6) |
| OCELOT | Feline mammal with a dark-spotted buff-brown coat (6) |
| ERMINE | Animal with a brown coat in the summer and a white coat in the winter (6) |
| OTTERS | Resting underground in a holt or above ground in a couch/hover, an animal with a waterproof chocolate brown coat, a footprint known as a seal and a tail known as a rudder (6) |
| SERVAL | African wild cat with a black-spotted orange and brown coat (6) |
| SORREL | Edible plant, horse of light reddish-brown coat |
| ROBUST | Tough old boy in brown coat |
| TABARD | Territorials taking up dull brown coat |
| REID | Top Democrat in the Senate |
| DISTRUSTS | Suspects in brown coats following detective inspector on street |
| DISTEND | Expand study to include top Democrat (7) |
| PROD | In favour of a top Democrat getting a good push (4) |
| AIDEMEMOIRE | Top Democrat ie more attuned to provide a reminder? (4,7) |
| CHEETAHS | Large, swift feline mammals with black-spotted light-brown coats (8) |
| ACTED | Top Democrat admitting Trump's first behaved (5) |
| PUMAS | Large American feline mammals with plain, greyish-brown coats and long tails (5) |
| STABILISED | Did Isabel sit out with a top Democrat, to be secured? (10) |
| LAB | Chocolate ___ (retriever with a brown coat, for short) |
| CARAMEL | Oddly roan, with light brown coat and dark brown tinge (7) |
