| KODIAK | Largest subspecies of the brown or grizzly bear (Ursus arctos middendorffi), native to islands of south-west Alaska (6) |
| MANGOSTEENS | Some gannets eat these tropical fruits (Garcinia mangostana), native to island nations of south-east Asia! (11) |
| TROUT | Freshwater game fish such as the Brown - or Rainbow - |
| FEELBADABOUT | Regret bringing iron to island of exile with expert on strike |
| POLAR | The ___ bear, Ursus maritimus, is one of the world's largest land carnivores (5) |
| COUNTRYTRIO | The Browns or The Chicks ... or each starred clue's answer, on an Olympic scoreboard? |
| CLE | The Browns or the Cavs, on a scoreboard |
| HEATH | The ___ hen, a subspecies of the greater prairie chicken, has been extinct since 1932 (5) |
| INDIAN | The ___ elephant is a subspecies of the Asian elephant (6) |
| SITKA | North American black-tailed deer, a subspecies of the mule deer (5) |
| BROWNBEAR | Large mammal of the northern hemisphere, Ursus arctos (5,4) |
| BROWBEAT | Ursus arctos with tails bitten off start to torment cow (8) |
| BIRD | Mrs ---, housekeeper of the Brown family in Michael Bond's Paddington Bear stories (4) |
| MUSTANG | There's a horse round the rim of the brown mugs, galloping (7) |
| LORAX | Kiddie lit character who's in charge of the Brown Bar-ba-loots |
| PIGNUT | Bitter nut of the brown hickory tree also called a hognut (6) |
| ARCTIS | There are 2 main subspecies of walrus which live in 2 different parts of the ___. They are the Atlantic and Pacific walruses |
| SIBERIA | Vast region of northern Asia, home to subspecies of tiger and roe deer (7) |
| NORTHAMERICA | Continent whose native animals include the bison and grizzly bear (5,7) |
| ASIATIC | ____ lion, an endangered subspecies of wild cat that lives in the Indian state of Gujarat (7) |
