| SETANEXAMPLE | Do the right thing for the badger in the middle of Uganda by way of illustration (3,2,7) |
| BILL | Name of the badger in Mary Tourtel's Rupert Bear comic strips; the muzzle of a platypus; or, a type |
| BROCK | Folky Englishism for the badger (5) |
| RATEL | Changed later for the badger-like carnivore |
| SETT | Little Charlotte's back looking for the badger's den (4) |
| ANNUALDINNER | Once a year makes a meal of things for the members in the club (6,6) |
| HORDERN | Teacher turned actor remembered for Shakespearean roles, parts in many films and as the voice of Paddington Bear and of Badger in The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| AIRTIGHTCASE | Good thing for the prosecution to go to court with |
| WILDWOOD | Region inhabited by Badger in The Wind in the Willows ; or, an album by Paul Weller (4,4) |
| EXAMPLE | By way of illustration, Inquisition is soft on the Spanish looking back (7) |
| FOREXAMPLE | By way of illustration (3,7) |
| VIGNETTE | Six and ten get interchanged, by way of illustration |
| ETSY | Website for finding just the right thing for your elaborate Halloween costume |
| ROAR | Bellow may be the right thing for a row (4) |
| SUIT | It would be the right thing for good clothing outfit (4) |
| CLARE | Poet noted for descriptions of English rural life in works such as The Shepherd's Calendar, Summer Images, Farm Breakfast, The Badger and The Yellowhammer's Nest (5) |
| MARTINEAU | Generally acknowledged as the first woman sociologist, author of Illustrations of Political Economy, a distant relation of the Duchess of Cambridge (9) |
| MAKEUP | The arrangement of illustrations and text on a printed page; the collective characteristics forming one's personality; or, cosmetics applied in the art of maquillage (4-2) |
| WILD | - Wood; home of Badger in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (4) |
| HAECKEL | Biologist who coined the word "ecology" and compiled the Art Forms of Nature collection of illustrations (7) |