| MAMBO | Dance related to the danzon |
| CUBA | Home of the rumba and the danzon |
| RUMBA | Syncopated ballroom dance based on the Cuban son and danzon, characterised by side-to-side hip movements while the torso remains erect (5) |
| SAMBA | Ballroom dance related to the bossa nova |
| WATUSI | Dance related to the twist |
| CHACHA | Dance related to the mambo |
| SALSA | Dance related to the mambo |
| HULA | Dance related to the Tongan tau'olunga |
| BOSSANOVA | Dance related to the samba (2 wds.) |
| GALOP | Dance related to a horse's gait |
| TANGO | Dance related to candombe |
| BALLETIC | Dance-related dance quote upended (8) |
| CELERIAC | Root vegetable related to the Root vegetable related to the parsnip eaten roasted, pureed as soup or grated raw and served with remoulade or bresola as a canape (8) |
| ROYALFERN | Species of plant Osmunda, related to the species depicted as a single leaf on the emblem of the All Blacks (5,4) |
| HYACINTH | Flower related to the bluebell; or, the name of the character played by Patricia Routledge in Keeping up Appearances (8) |
| APREHENSILETALE | What the old spider monkey related to the rest of the troop? |
| HOBBY | Falcon related to the kestrel, merlin and peregrine; a swift-flying bird catching dragonflies on the wing with a Latin name used for the game Subbuteo (5) |
| RAVEN | Known collectively as an unkindness, a buzzard-sized bird related to the crow,jackdaw, jay and rook; one of the avian guardians of the Tower Of London (5) |
| ERICA | Related to the heathers in the genus Calluna, the Latin name of heaths (5) |
| DIASTOLIC | Related to the relaxation phase of the heart |
