| MICROBES | If a sloth gets too cold, the ___ in its stomach will die, and it wont be able to digest the leaves it eats |
| REGULATE | Manage to digest the gruel consumed (8) |
| INKLING | Hint whale's stomach will have fish |
| SLOTH | Empty stomach will allow plenty of indolence (5) |
| BACTERIA | Good ___ in the rumen helps digest the cow's food and provides protein for the cow |
| ABSORB | Digest the sphere of a sailor? |
| THELAW | "___, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread": Anatole France |
| BEARDED | This type of vulture drops bones from a great height to smash them. It then swallows the bone fragments, which are broken down by powerful acids in its stomach. |
| HOTPOTATO | It's stolen locally and possibly chipped - you won't be able to keep your hands on it! (3,6) |
| HEAVYSLEEPER | One of those deep in the land of nod presumably won't be able to pick this up from the tracks (5,7) |
| WRITHE | "If there is a just God, how humanity would ___ in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals": Isaac Asimov (6) |
| SITTER | The person left holding the baby ___ and it won't be dropped! (6) |
| DRY | Use a towel to do this and it won't be! (3) |
| TENTERHOOKS | If youre on them you wont be able to stand the suspense (11) |
| HAIRBALL | Matter collected by a cat in its stomach after licking its fur (8) |
| TENDON | One doing an unexpected stretch for this won't be able to go on the run to catch up with gangster (6) |
| POORSOIL | Short of money for clay - without it you won't be able to grow the perfect grapes? (4,4) |
| SIBYLLA | In 1.2, Portia says, "If I live to be as old as ___, I will die as chaste as Diana." |
| SPIT | Giraffes have thick, slimy ___ that coats the thorns that it may have eaten by mistake and this prevents the thorns from damaging its stomach. |
| AGROUND | A good circuit - but you won't be able to move after running it! |
