| AARDVARK | In the ark, Dr Ava treated the first animal listed in a dictionary (8) |
| WORDS | Listed in a dictionary by Samuel Johnson or a thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget for example, units of language studied in lexicology (5) |
| WORD | Any one of the units of language or speech listed in a dictionary or thesaurus (4) |
| DEF | Meaning that's listed in a dictionary: Abbr. |
| RASPUTIN | Name given to the Russian 'monk' who claimed divine powers, was presented at court in 1907 and treated the Tsarevitch's haemophilia (8) |
| BUSTIEST | Fellow treated the rust at the greatest distance (8) |
| MAGNOLIA | Taking mother along, I treated the tree (8) |
| FERGUSON | Fine surgeon treated the manager Amorim must emulate |
| LAIKA | He was a stray dog picked off the streets of Moscow and the first animal to orbit the Earth in the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957. |
| THIRDOFNOVEMBER | When Laika the dog became the first animal in space, 1957 |
| RAT | Rodent that's the first animal in the Chinese zodiac |
| ENTERED | Came in and treated the tree in the end (7) |
| KRAIT | In the Ark, it could be a venomous one (5) |
| SHEM | Ham, ___, and Japheth (biblical trio who rode out the flood in the ark their father built) |
| SOLE | Fish that didn't have a partner in the Ark? (4) |
| NAMES | Studied in onomastics, titles or forms of address listed in a who's who or the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography started by Sir Leslie Stephen, for example (5) |
| AARDVARKS | The first animals to be included in the dictionary? |
| DOG | What was the first animal to orbit the Earth? (3) |
| DOVE | Bird mentioned in the ark story in Genesis (4) |
| ITTAKESTWO | Apportions blame to both of them in The Ark (2,5,3) |
