| NGO | Doctors Without Borders or Habitat for Humanity, e.g. |
| ROCKPOOLS | Puddles of trapped sea water forming mini ecosystems or habitats for limpets, periwinkles, anemones, starfish and other marine life (4,5) |
| LISTICLE | "21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity," e.g. |
| NGOS | Habitat for Humanity and Greenpeace, for two: Abbr. |
| TRISHAYEARWOOD | Country singer who along with her husband helps build houses for Habitat for Humanity: 2 wds. |
| JIMMYCARTER | Famed Habitat for Humanity volunteer |
| CARTER | Habitat for Humanity hero |
| RESTORE | Habitat for Humanity thriftshop |
| HOMES | Things built by Habitat for Humanity |
| MSF | We are doctors without borders, but we can't be doctors without you (3) |
| CHARITY | Doctors Without Borders, for one |
| EARTH | Habitat for humanity? |
| MEDECINS | ___ Sans Frontieres = Doctors Without Borders |
| AID | Doctors Without Borders offering |
| ORG | Doctors Without Borders, e.g.: Abbr. |
| EDGES | Regional dialect for limestone escarpments; another word for borders; or, cutting parts of knives (5) |
| LISTS | Word originally for borders or edges that has come to mean enumerations of connected items or names, written consecutively (5) |
| HEMS | Borders or edges of cloth, doubled down and sewn, synonymous with being confined or boxed in, whether in a crowd or at home alone (4) |
| FAUNA | Animals of a region or habitat |
| FAUNAL | Regarding the animals of a particular region or habitat (6) |
