| REBUTIA | Genus of small, colourful cacti from South America, also known as crown cacti (7) |
| PAISLEY | Fabric pattern of small colourful swirls |
| COYPU | Semiaquatic rodent from South America, also called a nutria (5) |
| GALACTIC | Girl sent cacti from a huge number of stars (8) |
| ENAMELLED | Protected as Crown Land spoilt with melee? (9) |
| OILBIRD | Nocturnal cave-dwelling bird of Trinidad and northern South America also known as the guacharo (7) |
| MORINGA | Tree of India, the Middle East, Africa, and South America, also called drumstick tree (7) |
| TATOUAY | Creature of South America also called the greater naked-tailed armadillo (7) |
| ANTBEAR | Large edentate mammal of Central and South America, also called the giant anteater (3,4) |
| ANACONDA | Any of four large snake species of tropical South America, also known as water boas (8) |
| TAMANDUA | Arboreal edentate mammal of Central and South America also known as the lesser anteater (8) |
| ARAPAIMA | Largest freshwater fish of South America, also known as the paiche or pirarucu (8) |
| GUMBALL | Small colourful orb or pellet of candy-coated "chewie", dispensed from a coined-operated machine or served in a conical cup of ice cream (7) |
| ALYSSUM | Genus of small-flowering plants - if sweet its genus is Lobularia (7) |
| CARIBOU | Large deer of Arctic regions of North America also called a reindeer (7) |
| OSTRICH | Old twitcher's first to capture small, colourful bird (7) |
| BLUEJAY | Small colourful North American songbird of the crow family; Cyanocitta cristata (4,3) |
| LYCAENA | Genus of small butterflies, usually in metallic colours (7) |
| TOOTSIE | Film set in America, also set ___ strangely enough ___ around Irish capital (7) |
| BEGGARWEED | Perennial plant of South and Central America also known as Kaimi clover (10) |
