| EMEER | Leader seen amongst native meerkats (5) |
| POWWOW | Conference, especially amongst Native Americans |
| MEETS | Encounters meerkats being let out of the ark (5) |
| ARENA | National leader seen in region with stadium (5) |
| RABBI | Jewish leader seen to endlessly go on a bit (5) |
| TENSE | Jittery Tory leader seen out |
| AKELA | Scout leader seen in fake lashes |
| HEATH | Former political leader seen in the Athenaeum |
| SALON | Leaders seen at locale of new reception room (5) |
| IMAMS | Religious leaders seen in Muslim Amsterdam (5) |
| HYENA | African predator that is more closely related to meerkats than to the members of the dog family it r |
| TIMON | The Lion King meerkat and warthog duo, ___ and Pumbaa (5) |
| KATHY | The name of a meerkat, hyena and jackal (5) |
| ORLOV | Aleksandr, meerkat featuring in advertising campaigns (5) |
| CIVET | Meerkat, for one |
| MANOR | "Meerkat ___" (former Animal Planet show) |
| MRTOD | Meerkat looked in regular places for fox |
| ATSTAKE | Endangered meerkats taken to shelter (2,5) |
| AGOODDEEDINA | Shakespearean take on the virtue seen amongst criminals? (1,4,4,2,1,7,5) |
| WEARYWORLD | Shakespearean take on the virtue seen amongst criminals? (1,4,4,2,1,7,5) |
