| BEHEMOTH | Huge beast in the book of Job thought to be a hippopotamus (8) |
| PRESERVE | Activity or job thought to be suitable for a group of people |
| 666 | The Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation |
| HIPPO | Huge beast in courtship position |
| PONDERED | Thought to be a water reed of a new kind (8) |
| MASTODON | Emma's to do nowt to obstruct huge beast (8) |
| IKNOWYOU | Comment to one, previously thought to be a stranger, after an aha moment |
| ELEVENTH | What hour is thought to be a last chance? (8) |
| VAMOOSES | Leaves large beast in vessel (8) |
| PSALM | Any one of the 150 sacred songs, poems and prayers that constitute the book of the Old Testament following the Book of Job (5) |
| ELIHU | Friend of Job whose speech is recounted in chapters 32 to 37 of the Book of Job |
| ELEPHANT | Huge beast making the plane unstable (8) |
| NICHOLAS | Actor who plays Hank Mccoy/ Beast in the X-men films, ___ Hoult (8) |
| PANTHERS | First sees her gasp! At those wild beasts in the NRL? (8) |
| SETABOUT | Wild beast, in the Open, attacked (3,5) |
| SEADOG | A Jack tar, old salt, pirate or sailor; a white rainbow as seen by a mariner; an antiquated word for a shark or a seal; or, a heraldic beast in the form of a talbot with a beaver's tail (3,3) |
| PEA | In a pod, mushed, used to make soup or blown out of a toy shooter, it is a small spherical green seed or pulse whose name in question was once thought to be a plural's singular (3) |
| STIR | A commotion; a slight movement or sensation; or, a slang word for "jail" that is thought to be a shortening of the Romany for "prison" (4) |
| GLIM | Thought to be a contracted style of "shimmer" or "sparkle", an old word for a candle, lantern or light; an eye; a pair of spectacles; or, a quick peep (4) |
| ONELINERS | Mitch Hedberg's "Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?" and "I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long," e.g. |
