| REDFOX | Land animal with the Latin name Vulpes vulpes (3,3) |
| HIPPO | Land animal with lots of blubber |
| TORTOISE | Land animal with a shell (8) |
| ELEPHANTS | Land animals with three living species: African bush, African forest, and Asian (9) |
| ASPENS | Trees with the Latin name Populus tremuloides |
| OCELOT | Wild cat with the Latin name Leopardus pardalis (6) |
| TURNIP | Root vegetable with the Latin name Brassica rapa (6) |
| ALLIUM | Onion-like plant with the Latin name for 'garlic' (6) |
| LILACS | Flowers with the Latin name Syringa |
| NETTLE | With the Latin name Urtica, meaning "burn, sting", a papilio-attracting urticant plant whose figurative grasping is metaphorical for boldly tackling a difficulty (6) |
| ANTLER | Trophy kept by a hunter after killing tiny animal with the French Resistance (6) |
| ENROLS | Joins up with the Latin senor wandering about |
| ACORN | Depicted on the logo of the National Trust, the fruit or seed of the tree with the Latin name Quercus (5) |
| WISENT | The heaviest surviving land animal in Europe, also known as the European bison |
| DAISY | With the Latin name Bellis perennis, "pretty everlasting", a flower whose common name refers to its opening in the "day" when it reveals its yellow disc or "eye" (5) |
| OAK | The holm ---, tree with the Latin name quercus ilex (3) |
| LING | Common name for heather with the Latin name Calluna vulgaris (4) |
| RINGOUZEL | Member of the thrush family with the Latin name Turdus torquatus (4,5) |
| TAUTONYM | Binomial name, such as Martes martes, Puffinus puffinus, Rattus rattus or Vulpes vulpes, in which generic and specific epithets are the same (8) |
| HENHARRIER | Ground-nesting raptor with the Latin name Circus; one of the UK's most endangered breeding birds of prey (3,7) |
