| NICO | Frank Sacks' "- the Unicorn" |
| AXES | Sacks the timber cutters |
| CASHIERS | Sacks the money-takers (8) |
| UNIVERSAL | Worldwide Anglo-Dutch company sacks the French on half pay (9) |
| IRIS | First name of the author of The Sandcastle, An Unofficial Rose, The Unicorn and The Sea, the Sea (4) |
| SCOTSPINES | Dominating the landscape of the Caledonian forests, national trees of a country whose other identifying symbols include thistle, tartan and the unicorn (5,5) |
| NARWHAL | Creature known as the "unicorn of the sea" |
| ORYX | Animal some believe to be the source of the unicorn myth |
| IRISHROVERS | Canadian folk group, with The, known for their famously fun tune "The Unicorn": 2 wds. |
| THELION | Some gave them white bread and some gave them brown in the nursery rhyme, ... And The Unicorn (3,4) |
| STARS | Celestial bodies forming asterisms, or constellations such as Monoceros the Unicorn or Pegasus the Winged Horse (5) |
| TORI | Actress Spelling who was the Unicorn on The Masked Singer |
| TORISPELLING | Actress who was the Unicorn on season 1 of The Masked Singer: 2 wds. |
| GREENALLIGATORS | Creatures in "The Unicorn" by Canadian folk band The Irish Rovers: 2 wds. |
| LION | Which animal accompanies the unicorn in the Royal arms? (4) |
| TAPESTRIES | The Met's "Hunt of the Unicorn" and others |
| SHEL | Mr. Silverstein who wrote "The Unicorn" famously recorded by Canadian folk band The Irish Rovers |
| THISTLE | During the 1460-88 reign of King James III, the unicorn and which other symbol first appeared on Scottish coins? (7) |
| MONOCEROS | Faint constellation on the celestial equator east of Orion; the Unicorn (9) |
| KIDNEY | Organ harvested from the titular character in "Charlie the Unicorn" |
