| STREAMS | Freshwater habitats such as the spring-fed winterbournes originating from chalk hills (7) |
| PONDS | General name for freshwater habitats such as those painted by Monet (5) |
| SCALLION | Vegetable with a small bulb and long green leaves such as the spring onion (8) |
| CHEESE | Very different from chalk! |
| ISLANDS | Isolated habitats such as Java and Spitsbergen, perhaps? (7) |
| ECOSYSTEMS | General name for habitats such as rainforests, coral reefs, deserts and grasslands (10) |
| WETLANDS | Bogs, fens and other freshwater habitats whose species include kingfishers, otters and water voles (8) |
| PEZ | Spring-fed sweet |
| RESERVOIR | Man-made habitat such as RSPB Dove Stone in Manchester (9) |
| GRASSLAND | Graminaceous biome/habitat, such as a field, glade, meadow, pampas, pasture, prairie or savanna (9) |
| BIOME | Major habitat such as a forest (5) |
| BUTTERFLIES | Lepidopterans such as Chalk Hill Blues, Clouded Yellows and Painted Ladies, whose name is thought to derive from an old belief that such insects stole churned cream (11) |
| CHILTERN | ___ Hills, range of chalk hills in southern England that includes the Chess Valley (8) |
| THEDOWNS | Chalk hills from Surrey to Kent, and from Hants to Sussex (3,5) |
| SOUTHDOWNS | A range of chalk hills that extends from the Itchen Valley in Hampshire to Beachy Head in East Sussex |
| CHILTERNS | Range of chalk hills which includes the Dunstable Downs |
| DOWNS | What are the chalk hills of Sussex and elsewhere called? (5) |
| LINCOLNSHIREWOLDS | Range of chalk hills in eastern England, the highest between Yorkshire and Kent |
| POND | Freshwater habitat often with wildlife including frogs, toads, newts, water boatmen and dragonflies (4) |
| STREAM | A freshwater habitat of minnows, sticklebacks and trout; or, a band of schoolchildren (6) |
