| SWIFT | Dialect for the common newt; a reel for winding yarn; or, a bird that spends most of its life in flight (5) |
| WATER | - lily; with floating leaves providing shelter for pond life including frogs and newts, a flowering aquatic plant related to the sacred lotus (5) |
| ILIUM | Bone starts its life in unusual manner |
| EFT | Common newt (3) |
| BOBBIN | Reel for winding yarn for lace-making, machine-sewing or weaving; fine cord; or, a spool of wire forming the coil of a bell or buzzer (6) |
| CLAM | Animal that spends most of its life buried in the sand |
| YITE | Similar to the name of the red-winged glede that hovers and soars in the breeze, Scots dialect for the yellowhammer that sings for "a little bit of bread and no cheese" (4) |
| COUNT | The act of numbering; the sum tallied; a measure of the fineness of yarn; or, a European title of nobility, equal in rank to a British earl (5) |
| REDGIANT | A term for a bright star in a late stage of its life that has consumed the hydrogen in its core (3,5) |
| SPINDLE | A turntable's central rod for holding a record; a spike used with a distaff for hand-spinning yarn; or, a baluster, chair leg or other piece of wood turned with a lathe (7) |
| TREE | Where a sloth spends most of its life |
| DOLL | Effigy of a human made by a miniaturist; or, regional dialect for the smallest or youngest piglet in a litter (4) |
| COPPIN | Dialect for the crest or top of a hill; or, a conical mass of thread on a spindle, possibly tump-shaped (6) |
| EMPEROR | The male of this type of regal-looking penguin incubates his mate's eggs for 60 days, eating nothing and losing as much as 45% of his body weight. The chick spends the first two months of its life on |
| HIPPO | Big land animal that spends most of the time in water |
| CONKERS | Dialect for the horse chestnuts (originally snails shells) that are used in a game of the same name (7) |
| ARBOREAL | Describing animals that spend most of their lives in trees (8) |
| SPINDLES | Wooden spikes used to spin cotton, flax or wool into yarn; or, a turned piece of wood used as a chair leg or banister (8) |
| SPINNING | Process of converting wool, silk, cotton or flax into yarn; or, a form of cardio on a stationary bike (8) |
| ALOE | A desert plant with lance-shaped leaves and a flower that appears only at the end of its life (4) |
