| DEFENCE | Iguana tails are over half the length of their bodies, and can be used as a ___ against predators |
| EMUS | Birds with wings about one-tenth the length of their bodies |
| HOUSEDIVIDED | "A ___ against itself cannot stand" (phrase in a speech by Pres. Lincoln, and description of the circled letters) |
| YEAR | Iguanas stay together during the first ___ of their life in family groups which offer protection against predators |
| COMB | This is made of plastic or metal, has thin teeth and can be used to neaten your hair (4) |
| HEALING | Umtiza Umtiza listeriana: In Xhosa tradition a piece of Umtiza stick can be used as a ___ wand. (7) |
| WARNING | Aposematic colouration is used as a ___ to predatory fish that the snake should be avoided as it is very toxic |
| SPIRACLES | Millipedes breathe through tiny pore-like holes located down the length of their body, called ___ |
| GOALIE | One guarding against Predator attacks, say |
| TENK | Race that's about half the length of a half-marathon |
| LOW | Cow's call is only half the length of a bull's |
| EXOSKELETON | Scorpions have an ___, or a hard shell, on the outside of their bodies |
| RADIUS | It's half the length of diameter (6) |
| TAILS | Those of Wels catfish comprise 75 per cent of their bodies (5) |
| NINETOFIVEJOBS | Forty-hour gigs ... or 19-, 32- and 39-Across, based on the lengths of their words? |
| MANTEL | Author of A Change of Climate and An Experiment in Love as well as the Cromwell trilogy comprising Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light (6) |
| AUDACITY | "I have the ___ to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits." -Martin Lut |
| ASTRONOMY | The scientific study of celestial bodies and the universe as a whole (9) |
| DYNAMICS | The science of the motion of bodies and action of forces with them (8) |
| LEMUR | The name for any of the indigenous primates of Madagascar with large eyes, foxlike faces, monkeylike bodies, and long hind limbs. |
