| PACHYDERM | Large animal such as elephant or rhinoceros (9) |
| HERD | Group of large animals such as cattle or elephants |
| HORNED | Bearing pointed outgrowths like a goat or rhinoceros |
| RAMPAGE | Sheep needs servant, as elephant may |
| SPILTTHEBEANS | Squealed as elephant's bits stirred (5,3,5) |
| BISHOPS | Chess pieces known as elephants in Russia |
| PROBOSCIS | The long flexible trunk or snout of some mammals such as the elephant or tapir |
| PRODUCERS | Financial backers of goods: rhinoceros skins (9) |
| IRONHORSE | Train wild rhinoceros to skip around (4,5) |
| OGDENNASH | To whom the rhinoceros was "prepoceros" |
| HARDNOSED | Uncompromising, like a rhinoceros? |
| THICKSKIN | Rhinoceros hide |
| ENDANGERED | Description of a species (such as the Sri Lankan elephant or the Bornean orang-utan) categorised as likely to become extinct (10) |
| BULL | A male bovine, elephant or whale; a strong, brutish person; or, slang for balderdash, cobblers or nonsense (4) |
| ROPE | Cord that can hold the weight of a climbing party or funambulist, or secure an elephant or ship, yet is merely a twist of plant fibres (4) |
| RIDEON | Use for transport, as an elephant or a bicycle |
| JUMBO | Elephant or large jet plane (5) |
| PARTY | Kind of animal that's associated with elephant or donkey, for example? (5) |
| ROGUE | Word for a vagrant; a scoundrel; a prankster or scamp; a savage solitary elephant; or, a variation from type (5) |
| POLITICALANIMAL | Like the US elephant or donkey, one keen on government science? (9,6) |
