| RELATIVES | Chimpanzees are our closest non-human ___ |
| ENDANGERED | Chimpanzees are ___ due to poaching, habitat loss and disease |
| TOOLS | Chimpanzees are well known for using ___ to get food |
| HEARTOFOAK | "___ are our ships/Jolly tars are our men..." |
| APES | Our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, thus veritable living lenses on our primal kin or windows into our evolutionary past (4) |
| PATHS | "Our feelings are our most genuine ___ to knowledge" (Audre Lorde) |
| SUNRAY | beam from our closest star |
| ANDROMEDA | Our closest spiral galaxy |
| SUN | New satellite sent to this, our closest star (3) |
| GUERRILLA | One of our closest relatives mentioned freedom fighter? (9) |
| NUKED | Study about having our closest neighbour destroyed |
| ANU | Yom Kippur prayer, "___ amecha, veata Elokeinu" (We are Your nation and You are our God...) |
| HEART | "___ of oak are our ships..." |
| OUTERWEAR | Are our wet shifts waterproof? |
| BETTERS | Backers, it seems, are our superiors (7) |
| HEADSOFINDUSTRY | Dishonesty, fraud, corruption . . . they are our business leaders! (5,2,8) |
| WISDOM | These teeth are our last (6) |
| IBELIEVE | "___ the children are our future ..." |
| SAWS | These are our SA weather scientists, watchers and warners. Accronym. (4) |
| RURAL | Are our large estates all in the middle of the countryside? |
