| HARDIEST | Fails to get in deer most likely to survive the winter |
| POLARBEARS | Large white Arctic animals that eat all summer to survive the winter (5,5) |
| FROGS | Creatures that can freeze and thaw to survive the winter cold |
| FITTEST | The most likely to survive are not born with frostbitten pads (7) |
| HARSHEST | The lady's surrounded by deer most savage |
| LOSETHEELECTION | Fail to get in, soothe clientele anyhow (4,3,8) |
| SUNYATSEN | This Pekinese was one of three dogs to survive the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. It was the companion of Myna Harper and Henry S. Harper, heir to the Harper and Row publishing company. (According to |
| NOAH | In the Old Testament, Hebrew patriarch who built a ship to survive the Flood (4) |
| PREDECEASE | Fail to survive the last month in rep performing 'The Life of Riley' (10) |
| JAMES | ___ Nightingale, managed to survive The Undertaker's imprisonment in Hollyoaks (5) |
| COMETHROUGH | Beset by ailment, mother managed to survive the experience (4,7) |
| WEATHER | Whereat, possibly, to survive the storm (7) |
| NOAHSARK | Ship constructed to survive the Biblical flood (5,3) |
| LASTDITCH | Final effort to survive the trench(4,5) |
| VIABLE | Sailor trapped in offensive likely to survive (6) |
| ETTA | "Rage to Survive: The ___ James Story" |
| HARDY | Able to survive the elements |
| OUTOFDANGER | Now likely to survive (3,2,6) |
| VARIABLE | Wavering, likely to survive crossing a river (8) |
| GOA | New driver fails to get to final destination, a place in India |
